Zhou You Guang- Ep 17
20:46 Min
Zhou You Guang- Ep 17
He is the man who changed how we learn Mandarin. 106- year- old Zhou You Guang is the creator of the official Romanization of Mandarin, or Hanyu Pinyin. An economist turned linguist, he tells us how difficult it was to promulgate Mandarin as the national language and how Hanyu Pinyin made China the world's second largest economy.
