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| | Penn State Chinese Program - About - Why Chinese? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | Chinese speakers reside in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Macau, and throughout Southeast Asia (such as Malaysia). |
 | | Chinese is one of the most important languages to know for the 21st century. |
 | | The ideosyncracies of Chinese language (characters) and culture have provided sources of inspiration for such Western thinkers and travelers as Marco Polo, Max Weber, G. Hegel, Ezra Pound, Bertolt Brecht, G. Leibniz, Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, and Jacques Derrida (see his remarks on Chinese characters, phoncentrism, and logocentrism in Of Grammatology). |
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