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12019-10-21T19:44:31-07:00Hankins Feichter4cce6cb584a3e5057ce8981a6ea7dff6489ff85b353373plain2019-10-21T20:01:55-07:00Hankins Feichter4cce6cb584a3e5057ce8981a6ea7dff6489ff85bIn the People's Republic of China, the state intensified efforts to build schools and standardize education within the Beijing Mandarin dialect through the late 1900s. The rate of the citizenship of the country understanding this standard Mandarin raised to 91% in 1984.
What might May, 1984 have looked like to someone part of these efforts to standardize?
Information on Mandarin standardization retrieved from Ping Chen's Modern Chinese, pages 27-28.