Controversy over a proposal by Tainan mayoral hopeful Yeh Yi-jin to replace zhuyin teaching with pinyin is unsurprising, seeing as a proposal to replace zhuyin in Taiwan touches upon issues of identity and culture...
A recent statement by the Association for Taiwan Literature calling on the Ministry of Education to change the education curriculum in Taiwan to focus less on traditional Chinese classics and instead to draw on materials more suitable to contemporary Taiwan is the end result of a series of debates in past months about differences between Taiwanese and Chinese literature, as well as language learning in Taiwan...