This episode tells the history of the development of the Chinese language with a special focus on Chinese characters. The episode goes through the different eras in China and the accompanying use of different characters and symbols, as well as the different writing styles from which the art of Chinese calligraphy emerged. The episode also talks about the Han era, when the form of characters was standardized throughout China. The episode's final part addresses a serious problem that China faced due to the spread of computer technology after World War II. #Al-Dahih Sources: [1] Hongyuan Dong - A History of the Chinese Language (2014) [2] • Evolution of Chinese Characters [3] • Why Chinese Created an ALPHABET [4] • Chinese Characters EXPLAINED [5] • The TRUE Origins of Simplified Chinese [6] https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-bu... [7] • When They Nearly KILLED Chinese [8] https://www.thechairmansbao.com/blog /... [9] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20... [10] https://www.archchinese.com/arch_chin... [11] https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-eng... [12] https://doi.org/10.31826/jlr-2019-171... [13] https://www.degruyter.com/document/do... [14] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-3... [15] https://www.theguardian.com/world/201... [16] https://deutsch.ucsd.edu/psychology/p... [17] https://www.technologyreview.com/2023... [18] • The Wubi Effect Radiolab Podcast [19] http://repository.seikei.ac.jp/dspace... [20] https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/29/the... [21] https://www.realclearscience.com/arti... [22] https://core.ac.uk/outputs/229246973 [23] • How China Conquered The Keyboard [24] https://interconnect.substack.com/ p/5... [25] Lu, Wei and Max Aiken. “Origins and evolution of Chinese writing systems and preliminary counting relationships.” Accounting History 9 (2004): 25 - 51. (25) https://www.englishraven.com/Chinese-... https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperin... https://www.economist.com/china/2023/... Xi: We call ourselves descendants of the dragon https://www.chinahighlights.com/trave...