Evil Chinese characters

Fu Sinian, one of the leaders of the May Fourth Movement (a movement that started in 1919 and sought to put an end to imperial China by means of culture reforms), called Chinese characters the "writing of ox-demons and snake-gods". Lu Xun, a renowed Chinese author in the 20th century, stated that, "if Chinese characters are not destroyed, then China will die".

 Based on "Survey of the Chinese Language Reform and the Anti-Illiteracy Movement in Communist China", Paul L.-M. Serruys. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962.