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SUMMARY:Intellectuals and the National Language Movement in Modern China: S
 tarting with The Enigma of Lin Yutang
DESCRIPTION:\n	Peng Chunling (Assistant Professor\, Institute of Modern His
 tory\, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n	Chair 
 and Discussant: David Wang (Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Liter
 ature\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard Uni
 versity)\n\n\n	Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\n\n
 	The National Language Movement has profoundly changed the verbal and writ
 ten communication of the Chinese people. Generally speaking\, the vernacul
 ar literary movement\, the reform of the Chinese phonetic symbol system\, 
 and the national language unification movement\, which started during the 
 late Qing\, are all considered parts of the National Language Movement in 
 modern China.\n\n	Unlike previous discussions\, Peng Chunling’s research
  adjusts objects and perspectives. Through studying the leading Chinese in
 tellectual Zhang Taiyan (1869-1936) and his students\, together with their
  surrounding intellectuals\, a bigger picture of this movement – not onl
 y the main questions surrounding it\, but also competition between differe
 nt linguistic resources and conflicts due to different political stances 
 – can be outlined.\n\n	This talk will specifically focus on the 1920s\, 
 when the National Language Romanization system was invented and published\
 , solving the ‘enigma’ of Lin Yutang (1895-1976)\, who transformed fro
 m an expert in linguistics to a prominent writer. Lin juxtaposed Chinese c
 haracters and the Roman alphabet\, and designed his own Chinese character 
 retrieval system and a Chinese phonetic symbol system. He ignored preexist
 ing conceptions about the differences between Chinese characters and the R
 oman alphabet due to their pictorial or phonetic origins\, and viewed Chin
 ese characters and the Roman alphabet as interchangeable in terms of writi
 ng\, for both of them appear as images consisting of certain fundamental e
 lements in certain orders. He insisted on preserving Chinese characters fo
 r basic writing\, while also believing that Roman letters were the ideal C
 hinese phonetic system. To some extent\, Lin came close to the thought of 
 Zhang Taiyan’s student Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967)\, which demonstrates the 
 congruence of cosmopolitan and nationalist linguistic opinions in 1920s. L
 in’s ambition in linguistics was diminished by the macro environment of 
 the Chinese intelligentsia and hidden conflicts inside the linguists’ gr
 oup\, which reflected the trends of disciplinary and political differentia
 tion in Chinese society since the 1920s.
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