This is why I think in China the history of the Chinese languages should be taught (I really do not know why some evolutionary tree of Homo sapiens is in the bi

This is why I think in China the history of the Chinese languages should be taught (I really do not know why some evolutionary tree of Homo sapiens is in the biology curriculum but this is not in some social science one. Seems like an oversight). Even from Chinese people, you still hear all these myth (debunked in some other comment) that X almost became Mandarin.