The Straits Times

Father of hanyu pinyin turns 109: 5 things about the system he invented

The father of hanyu pinyin, Mr Zhou Youguang, turned 109 on Tuesday. The linguist and dissident came up with the system of transliterating Chinese characters into roman letters in the 1950s. The ...
HeraldNet

Zhou Youguang, who created Pinyin writing system, dies at 111

Zhou Youguang, a onetime Wall Street banker from China who developed Pinyin, a Romanized writing system that has helped more than 1 billion Chinese and countless foreigners learn to read and write ...
scmp.com

Zhou Youguang, whose Pinyin writing system helped modernise China, dies at 111

Zhou Youguang, a onetime Wall Street banker from China who developed Pinyin, a Romanised writing system that has helped more than 1 billion Chinese and countless foreigners learn to read and write ...
The Taipei Times

Academic sees role for both systems of Pinyin

Every Taiwanese should learn both Tongyong Pinyin, the country's recently approved official system for Romanizing Mandarin, and Hanyu Pinyin (漢語拼音), the system used in China, Academia Sinica President ...
Global Times

Tributes to Zhou Youguang stir debate over who deserves the title: the ‘father of Pinyin’

Pinyin, the official Romanization system for standard Chinese, is widely used in learning how to read Chinese characters. After the death of famed Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang on Saturday, Chinese ...
The Taipei Times

Pinyin swap would cost NT$1bn

Minister of Education Cheng Jei-cheng (鄭瑞城) said yesterday that converting the official phonetic Romanization system used by the government from Tongyong to Hanyu Pinyin would cost an estimated NT$1 ...
China Digital Times

Taiwan Road sign Wars in Green and Blue : Taipei, Taiwan Governments Disagree on Romanization of Placenames

Thanks to David Cowhig for following content: Taiwan’s Interior Mininstry and the Taipei City government differ on how road signs should be spelled. The Taiwan government favors Tongyong Romanization, ...
Sydney Morning Herald

Zhou Youguang's Pinyin writing system helped modernise China

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Zhou Youguang, a one-time Wall Street banker from China who developed Pinyin, a Romanised writing system that has helped more than 1 ...
Toronto Star

Zhou Youguang, whose Pinyin writing system transformed China, dies at 111

Zhou Youguang, a one-time Wall Street banker from China who developed Pinyin, a Romanized writing system that has helped more than 1 billion Chinese and countless foreigners learn to read and write ...