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About Zhou Youguang 周有光
Zhou Youguang 周有光 was a Chinese economist, banker, linguist, sinologist, publisher, and supercentenarian, known as the "father of Pinyin", a system for the writing of Mandarin Chinese in Roman script, or romanization, which was officially adopted by the government of the People's Republic of China in 1958, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 1982, and the United Nations in 1986.
He died at the age of 111 years and one day.
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Zhou Youguang 周有光's Timeline
| 1906 |
January 13, 1906
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Changzhou, Jiangsu, China
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| 1934 |
1934
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| 2017 |
January 14, 2017
Age 111
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Beijing, Beijing, China
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