Dunno how you've been phrasing it to people. Maybe most of the people you've been talking too didn't do the literature track in school (China splits tracks very

Dunno how you've been phrasing it to people. Maybe most of the people you've been talking too didn't do the literature track in school (China splits tracks very early on)? Most people I know know about it (or at least that there were a variety of 20th century Chinese intellectuals interested in doing away with Chinese characters). Also people forget things they learned in school. But as for sources... It shows up on high school tests. E.g. a 2022 high school test from Dalian https://www.51jiaoxi.com/doc-13250120.html https://www.51jiaoxi.com/doc-13250120.html (there's a paywall but it's client-side you can remove it with your browser's DOM inspection tools) > “胡适提出的文学革命其实是一剂泻药。而陈独秀、钱玄同、鲁迅等人还嫌它不够猛烈，又以更激烈的态度提出新的口号，于是‘废除汉字”‘将线装书统统丢进茅厕里”“不读中国书”等种种骇人听闻的说法便一个接一个地出来了，而且到现在还有人为之猛拍巴掌。”该评论指新文化运动（ ） > "The literature revolution championed by Hu Shih in reality was a laxative. Yet Chen Duxiu, Qian Xuantong, Lu Xun and others thought it was still not extreme enough. As a result, "Get rid of chinese characters," "Throw thread-bound books [the usual book binding for classical texts] into the toilet," "Don't read Chinese books," and other shocking sayings came out one after the other, and even now there are people who applaud such sayings." This comment points out that the New Culture Movement ([a series of multiple choice answers follows]) There are literally dozens if not hundreds of threads about this on Zhihu, Baidu Zhidao, etc. (https://www.zhihu.com/question/36621372 https://www.zhihu.com/question/36621372, https://www.zhihu.com/question/525670306 https://www.zhihu.com/question/525670306, https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/2201546777143697068.html https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/2201546777143697068.html, etc.) This is a pretty far cry from "conveniently leaving out."