Name: China vs Taiwan: Top 5 Differences (Part 1) | China Uncensored
Uploaded: 2019-05-14T07:44:11.000Z
Duration: 8 min 59 s
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since there are two governments that claim to

After the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1911,

China was known as the Republic of China,

when the KMT lost a civil war against the Communists.

Then they fled to the island province of Taiwan,

where they set up the new government of the Republic of China.

Today, Taiwan is still officially the Republic of China.

And the rest of China is the People's Republic of China,

Which you can tell because Mao Zedong's portrait

But a lot has changed since the Civil War

Taiwan—and what's now called mainland China—

a modified form of English created to control how people think.

In mainland China, the Communist Party dramatically changed

the traditional written language that had been used

They replaced it with simplified Chinese characters.

So for instance, this is the traditional Chinese character for love.

and left us with the simplified character for love.

The idea of modifying Chinese characters didn't start with

But Mao Zedong originally wanted to take it to an extreme—

completely getting rid of Chinese characters and replacing them

Here's an example of one possible romanization system

that the Communists looked into using as a replacement.

And we have one person to thank for that:

Josef Stalin of the Soviet Union suggested to Mao

Although during the Cultural Revolution in the 60s,

Mao did try to further simplify Chinese characters again,

So nowadays mainland China uses simplified Chinese,

but it's not so simplified that it makes it completely impossible

simplifying Chinese characters was to encourage literacy.

But getting rid of traditional characters

If the majority of citizens can only read simplified characters,

the Communist Party allows to be published.

they've used traditional Chinese characters all along.

people can more easily read ancient Chinese texts.

But like I said, the Communist Party claimed

they enforced simplified Chinese to improve literacy rates.

I mean, those traditional characters are so complicated!

in Mainland China only 3.6% of adults can't read and write.

In Taiwan, though—that number is only 1.6%.

Now there's probably a lot of reasons for that,

but it also shows you don't have to sacrifice

your country's cultural heritage for people

Who doesn't love a good bike share program?

That's at least one thing both sides of the Taiwan Strait

orderly bikes safely placed in their docks in Taiwan.

But isn't it a pain to have to take your bike back to a dock?

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