Give the city a wash

Author: Zhang Bin
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: Why "Give the City a Face Wash"? Because we who live in the city are surrounded by (unstandardized) and (unclean) Chinese every day. Street advertisements, shop signs, tourist attraction descriptions, product manuals—wherever there's text, there are often problems. We are the victims, and our children are even more so! Think about it: exposing children who are in the critical stage of learning their mother tongue to such a dirty linguistic environment is a form of negligence. For the nation's culture, it's a kind of devastation. Cleaning up the (dirty), (chaotic), and (poor) state of the Chinese language is precisely the purpose behind publishing "Give the City a Face Wash."