Politics
The long history of Chinese characters and the role of the Chinese Communist Party in the design and adoption of simplified characters means that there is often a strong political aspect to the debate on the usage of traditional and simplified Chinese characters.
Read more about this topic: Debate On Traditional And Simplified Chinese Characters
Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.”
—Mao Zedong (1893–1976)
“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)