It was a turn of fate, Mr. Zhou acknowledged afterward, that may well have saved his life. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyIn Chongqing, Mr. Zhou worked for the Sin Hua Trust and Savings Bank. In 1946, Mr. Zhou went to New York to represent Sin Hua at the Wall Street headquarters of its United States agent, Irving Trust. “Pinyin is not to replace Chinese characters; it is a help to Chinese characters,” Mr. Zhou explained in the interview with The Guardian. In the interview with Agence France-Presse in 2015, Mr. Zhou articulated the philosophy that he said sustained him through his years in the labor camp.

Source: New York Times January 14, 2017 10:08 UTC