Wu Zhihui
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Wu Zhihui
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| Born | 25 March 1865 Wujin, Qing China |
| Died | 30 October 1953 (aged 88) Taipei, Taiwan |
| Known for | Bopomofo |
| Spouse | Yuan Rongqing (袁榮慶) |
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| Traditional Chinese | 吳稚暉 | ||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 吴稚晖 | ||||||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Wú Zhìhuī |
| Wade–Giles | Wu2 Chih4-hui1 |
| IPA | [ǔ ʈʂɨ̂xwéi] |
| Southern Min | |
| Tâi-lô | Ngôo Tī-hui |
Wu Zhihui (Woo Chih-hui, Chinese: 吳稚暉; 25 March 1865 – 30 October 1953), also known as Woo Tsin-hang, was a Chinese linguist and philosopher who was the chairman of the 1912–13 Commission on the Unification of Pronunciation that created Zhuyin (based on Zhang Binglin's work) and standardized Guoyu pronunciation.
Wu became an Anarchist during his stay in France in the first decade of the 20th century, along with Li Shizeng, Zhang Renjie, and Cai Yuanpei. With them, he was known as one of the strongly anti-communist "Four Elders" of the Nationalist Party in the 1920s.
Born into a poor family in Wujin, Jiangsu province as Wu Tiao (Chinese: 吳朓; pinyin: Wú Tiǎo), Wu Zhihui was an outstanding student, passing the challenging Juren examination in 1891.
He served at the Nanyang College Preparatory School Hall (now the Shanghai Nanyang Model High School). In 1903 in the Subao newspaper, Wu criticized the Qing government and derided then ruling Empress Dowager Cixi, calling her "whore whore" (娼妓淫婦).
After this incident, Wu fled by way of Hong Kong to London. His official status enabled him to travel and live in Scotland and France. He attended university lectures in Edinburgh. In 1903, he went to Paris, where he renewed his friendship with Li Shizeng, the son of a high official he had met in Beijing, and with Zhang Renjie, well-connected son of a prosperous merchant. Although Wu was their elder by more than a decade, the three young scholars, although well-versed in the Confucian philosophy which dominated Chinese thought, were impressed by the doctrines of anarchism which flourished in France. Together with Li and Zhang, he formed the Shijie She (World Society), which became a center of anarchist thought and recruitment for several decades.
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