I mentioned Saint-John University in earlier posts. Another famous alumni of the main University of Old Shanghai is Zhou Youguang, the man who invented Pinyin. Born in 1906, he went to the US to work as a Wall Street Banker after graduation. Returning to China after 1949, he lead the committee that created Pinyin, introduced to school in China 1958. The most incredible is that is still alive and writing is own blog on Weibo (in Chinese only).
Read his fascinating story in the article from Louisa Lim on NPR website.
Could you please tell me the date of Louisa Lim’s article on Zhou Youguang in the NPR website.
Thank you.
Sorry about the confusion. I have now updated the link and clicking on it should take you directly there.
The article date is 19th October 2011