{"id":30005,"date":"2008-12-20T23:15:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T06:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=30005"},"modified":"2008-12-21T23:18:21","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T06:18:21","slug":"taiwan-to-seek-world-heritage-status-for-complex-chinese-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/12\/taiwan-to-seek-world-heritage-status-for-complex-chinese-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan to Seek World Heritage Status for Complex Chinese Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan hopes to preserve traditional Chinese characters by applying for UNESCO&#8217;s world heritage status. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monstersandcritics.com\/news\/asiapacific\/news\/article_1449087.php\/Taiwan_to_seek_world_heritage_status_for_complex_Chinese_characters_\">Monsters &amp; Criti<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monstersandcritics.com\/news\/asiapacific\/news\/article_1449087.php\/Taiwan_to_seek_world_heritage_status_for_complex_Chinese_characters_\">c<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"intelliTxt\"><span> Taiwan plans to set up a task force in February to prepare for making the application to UNESCO, the United Daily News quoted Premier Liu Chao-Shiuan as saying. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30029\" style=\"width: 179px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/url1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30029\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30029\" title=\"url1\" src=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/url1.gif\" alt=\"An example of the traditional and simplified difference can be seen with the word &quot;to write&quot;.\" width=\"169\" height=\"118\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An example of the traditional and simplified difference can be seen with the character &quot;to write&quot;.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span id=\"intelliTxt\"><span>It was not clear whether Taiwan&#8217;s not being a member of the United Nations would hinder the effort, but Taiwan&#8217;s government does not believe China would oppose the move because the complex characters are part of the Chinese heritage, the News said.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Taiwan uses the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Traditional_Chinese\">traditional character system<\/a> whereas the Mainland uses the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simplified_chinese\">simplified system<\/a>. Using one system over the other often has political undertones. The Communist Party believes that simplified characters allows greater illiteracy, but the Nationalist (KMT) government of China believed that using traditional characters helped preserve the &#8220;Chinese culture.&#8221; In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roc-taiwan.org\/uk\/TaiwanUpdate\/nsl150706k.htm\">Central News Agency<\/a> article, opponents of the simplified system<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"color: #29537c;\">&#8220;&#8230;expressed his disapproval of   China  \u2019s claim that promoting simplified characters was aimed at helping reduce  illiteracy and enhance work efficiency, saying that simplified characters are  like \u201cinstant noodles,\u201d which provide no nutrition, and that more than 80  percent of the Chinese people who know only simplified characters cannot read  older, classical Chinese books.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan hopes to preserve traditional Chinese characters by applying for UNESCO&#8217;s world heritage status. From Monsters &amp; Critic: Taiwan plans to set up a task force in February to prepare for making the application to UNESCO, the United Daily News quoted Premier Liu Chao-Shiuan as saying. It was not clear whether Taiwan&#8217;s not being a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,112],"tags":[4151,6344,1430],"class_list":["post-30005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-taiwan","tag-chinese-characters","tag-chinese-language","tag-unesco","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Taiwan to Seek World Heritage Status for Complex Chinese Characters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/12\/taiwan-to-seek-world-heritage-status-for-complex-chinese-characters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Taiwan to Seek World Heritage Status for Complex Chinese Characters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Taiwan hopes to preserve traditional Chinese characters by applying for UNESCO&#8217;s world heritage status. 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