Another Short History of Linguistics (83)

Between 19 and 20 centuries, the theory of ‘might is right’ had a good shown off in linguistic study. It started from Japan and followed by Chinese.

After the Chinese lost many wars during this period, lot of Chinese students that had studied in Japan came on stage, such as 鲁迅Lu Xun (the literature icon of communist party), 钱玄同Qian Xuan Tong，陈独秀Chen Du Xiu (the funder of Chinese communist party). This Japanese idea gave them good chance to show off. I have said that as a pictogram, during the long history, the Chinese could not find a good question to challenge their language so they had no way to develop their own linguistics. Now when the above scholars studied oversea, they found so many linguistic material in the western world, it daunting them. They joint together to abolish the old Chinese character writing system with their Japanese teacher. When the party took the office, the later leader 毛泽东Mao Ze Dong who didn’t know anything about linguistics was trying to adopt alphabetic letters. His hatred of Chinese Character was from Chen Du Xiu, it was but an arty-crafty idea. And even before Mao took power he tried to abolish character in 延安Yan-An in order to prove the legality of his domination. Under this idea, 1955 Bandung Conference, the first third world meeting is decided using English as working language, with the fully support of Chinese delegation. After this meeting 1.5 billion out of 3.0 billion people at that time regarding English as international language.

From above we may understand that the so called linguistics was never a study of science or philosophy but a politic scheme, intrigue against each other anyone who have right of speech will promote his linguistic idea, because at that time there is no canon, no standard of right or wrong.

 According this theory the former pictogram country such as Vietnam, Korean turned to adopt alphabetic letters one after another.