Chinese philosopher and diplomat. As a philosophy professor he promoted vernacular literature to replace writing in the classical style.

中国哲学家和外交家。在担任哲学教授期间，他大力推广白话文学以取代文言文。

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The contemporary Chinese literature gradually comes into form during the process of inheriting classical Chinese, vernacular, learning western language and practicing itself.

现代汉语文学，就是在继承古典文言、白话，学习西方语言和自身的实践三方结合的过程中逐步成型的。

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He proclaimed the failure of translation in classical Chinese and took his pioneering role of breaking the path of translation in the vernacular.

他宣布文言翻译的失败，开创了白话文翻译的新路，起到了开风气之先的作用。

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In 1912, the government abolished the teaching of the classics and began promoting a written form of the vernacular, rather than classical written Chinese, which was decipherable only to scholars.

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