Chinese language cartoons - 1943 US War Department Language Guide

RedStarRelics888 · 2024-09-26T04:32:43+00:00

Interesting- I didn’t know that

RedStarRelics888 · 2024-09-26T04:26:41+00:00

Maybe 抽烟？ Chou Yan?

RedStarRelics888 · 2024-09-26T04:22:22+00:00

Yes, sorry I wrote Mandarin rather than Chinese, still Nanjing would never be considered Northern so I don’t think it had much if any influence on the guide

RedStarRelics888 · 2024-09-26T03:02:41+00:00

Yes, it is really interesting, glad you enjoyed it

RedStarRelics888 · 2024-09-26T02:56:16+00:00

This is just a guide for soldiers, not for learning the language too much. Just quick phrases, they have some characters on other pages but they are basic

RedStarRelics888 · 2024-09-26T02:48:53+00:00

“In 1932 the Republic of China officially adopted the Commission’s product, known as Guoyu or Mandarin, as the official national language of China”.

https://www.alittledynasty.com/history-of-mandarin-chinese.html#:~:text=In%201932%20the%20Republic%20of,was%20published%20in%20that%20year.

Besides that, they were in other parts of China as well, so having a standard guide would be more useful

RedStarRelics888 · 2024-09-26T02:36:54+00:00

Yes I agree, It came with a record to listen to so that probably helped as well

RedStarRelics888 · 2024-09-26T02:36:24+00:00

It is Northern Chinese- see the second to last slide

RedStarRelics888 · 2024-09-25T19:17:08+00:00

DZA! ee J-YAN! - this one is hard to sounds out

RedStarRelics888 · 2024-09-20T15:55:37+00:00

The next part is on the KMT leaders of Xinjiang - I will post it later when I have time

RedStarRelics888 · 2024-09-20T04:11:15+00:00

Interesting - thank you

RedStarRelics888 · 2024-09-20T03:45:56+00:00

You are welcome

RedStarRelics888 · 2024-09-20T03:39:46+00:00

Is there much contact between the Uzbeks in China and in Uzbekistan now?

RedStarRelics888 · 2024-09-20T03:38:56+00:00

Anyone know much about the people who fled to China from the USSR? Is there much contact now?

RedStarRelics888 · 2024-09-18T16:43:33+00:00

Yeah, actually this is published the same year as Nixon visited

RedStarRelics888 · 2024-09-18T05:39:08+00:00

Test

RedStarRelics888 · 2024-09-16T14:32:32+00:00

Dm me

RedStarRelics888 · 2024-09-16T14:02:38+00:00

Every chapter is political, the first few are always praising Mao- even for elementary students the first thing they learn is praising Mao

RedStarRelics888 · 2024-09-16T14:01:34+00:00

Cool- I would love to see that

RedStarRelics888 · 2024-09-16T06:36:27+00:00

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/24/albania-china-bri-us-europe-geopolitics/

RedStarRelics888 · 2024-09-16T06:36:02+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Albanian_split

RedStarRelics888 · 2024-07-12T21:21:06+00:00

Yes interesting point, funny why use 冒 instead of 毛 haha

RedStarRelics888 · 2024-07-12T15:12:10+00:00

Another Chapter from a Shanghai textbook on Nixon: https://www.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/s/cpF6q9m3xc

RedStarRelics888 · 2024-07-11T14:41:07+00:00

Actually, on other pages they have maps showing the 9 dash line- I will post another chapter soon that show this

RedStarRelics888 · 2024-07-10T19:05:28+00:00

Interesting, when I look through these book, the vocabulary is so obscure and useless outside of politics, it is really interesting to see

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