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CHINA - AUGUST 03: Zhou Youguang, a Chinese linguist and inventor of Pinyin, poses for a portrait in Beijing, China, on Monday, Aug. 3, 2009. Zhou, a former economist, returned from a banking job in New York to his native China in 1949. (Photo by Nelson Ching/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

CHINA - AUGUST 03:  Zhou Youguang, a Chinese linguist and inventor of Pinyin, poses for a portrait in Beijing, China, on Monday, Aug. 3, 2009. Zhou, a former economist, returned from a banking job in New York to his native China in 1949.  (Photo by Nelson Ching/Bloomberg via Getty Images)