What is Standard Written Chinese

A baihua yundong ???? (‘vernacular language movement’) was started in 1917 by the scholar Hu Shi ??. This baihua literary movement advocated adopting the baihua ??(‘vernacular’) style of Chinese as a written language to revitalize the Classical Chinese literary language and make it more accessible to the common people. Baihua is the form of written Chinese based on the varieties of Chinese spoken throughout China, in contrast to wenyan ??(‘classical Chinese’) or (‘literary speech’) used in Imperial China up to the early twentieth century. This movement succeeded in making baihua the language of textbooks, periodicals, newspapers, and public documents. Baihua now commonly refers to the standard written Chinese or modern written Chinese. Since the early 1920s, this modern vernacular form has been the standard style of writing for speakers of all varieties of Chinese throughout mainland China, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Singapore as written form of modern standard Chinese. Standard written Chinese (presented in traditional characters) is used in all official and educational contexts in Hong Kong.

Discussions of Using AI in Language Education in Hong Kong

Siu-lun Lee (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Yongyin Chen (Independent Researcher, Hong Kong)