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    78 months ago

    Nowadays, doing that would be strange and invite confusion.

    I’m not even Chinese and I know that it was historically written from right to left. I’m sure people in China would know this.

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      18 months ago

      Depends on how the party handled people, who pointed out, that ther direction was changed. Did they pat them on the back and say “Yea, funny old times, but thankfully the people figured out a way to make writing even better” or did they just beat them and their family until they stopped talking about capitalist heresy?

      It is easy to forget history if nobody is allowed to speak of it.

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        28 months ago

        Right to left is still used in (mainland) China, it is just less common. It is also the more common style in Hong Kong and Taiwan. And, of course, Japanese.