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“The Chinese language is extremely hard to learn. It is the only major linguistic system in the world that does not have an alphabet; and it is composed of numerous complicated characters – ideograms – which have to be memorised one by one and, moreover, are totally unrelated to sounds.”
― Jung Chang, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China