Launching of Movement to Teach Rising Generation a "National"
Tongue But the Literary Revolution in elf represented only the beginning, for the dialectic problem still faced China, Just as on the continent of Europe, people as closely related as the Germans and the Dutch, for instance, speak and read different Ianguages, so in China, different dialects and languages have kept the people apart. As an offshoot of the Literary Revolution developed the tendency throughout the country' to teach the rising generation a single tongue, spoken and under. stood everywhere.
Foreigners call this language gauge. refer to it as the National Lan-
These efforts affected principally the intallectfal classes. The masses ]were still in ignorance. Progressive
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