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Why Chinese had no word for “She” until the 20th century

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Join ♣️ The Linguist List ♣️ if you like what you see :) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWPmflIzM_mpBWGTVMGevxg/join Did you know that Chinese didn't have a word for "She" until about 100 years ago? In fact, Chinese operated without a female 3rd person pronoun for thousands of years, and it wasn't a problem -- until interaction with the west. Watch this video to learn the fascinating (albeit winding) history of Chinese gendered pronouns. [Timeline] [00:39] Western missionaries' first stab at "she" [02:50] Chinese's "Language Problem" [04:39] Origin of 他 (Tā) pronoun [06:42] China's New Culture Movement [08:19] Birth of 她 (Tā) "She" pronoun [11:26] The OTHER "She" -- 伊 [12:35] Opposition to 她 (Tā) "She" pronoun [14:30] 21st century use of TA/ 《X也》 / 《无也》 Further Reading: Huang, X. (2023). A Cultural History of the Chinese Character “Ta (她, She)”: Invention and Adoption of a New Feminine Pronoun. Taylor & Francis. https://books.google.co.kr/books/about/A_Cultural_History_of_the_Chinese_Charac.html?id=E6S_EAAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y Yeung, J. (2025, December 26). Soon you may be able to type a new Chinese character: the gender-neutral pronoun. CNN. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/25/china/chinese-gender-neutral-pronoun-unicode-intl-hnk-dst?fbclid=PAT01DUAO7jhtleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA81NjcwNjczNDMzNTI0MjcAAaeVx-uPSyvKQC1Il3xmo8PKl0mc_tyZLVezCN6vyo5V3XfIsmt7c7OJSJqu5A_aem_cHn0Heg2Ow_J7IfysKbygA Papadopoulos, B., & Zhu, Z. (2021, August 2). A conversation with Zipeng Zhu. Gender in Language Project. www.genderinlanguage.com/mandarin/zipengzhu Janet Davey. (2025). Taking "TA" Beyond the Binary: In Search of Multimodal Gender-inclusive Pronouns in Chinese. Image & Narrative, 25(03), 131–163. Retrieved from https://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/3417 Watch the 2021 Drama about the Founding of China (includes the creation of "La Jeunesse" and 她 (Tā) "She" pronoun: 觉醒年代(2021年):https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIj4BzSwQ-_snf5H4DR-O2AYT-eHzcmtU SAY HI! Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/julesytooshoes

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