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Originally Posted by ericshliao
BTW2, I think you might be interested in a fact:
In ancient times, Chinese text had no punctuation, readers had to distinguish sentences and paragraphs on their own when they were reading. Punctuation were introduced to Chinese text in later times, but I don't know the exact time. I remember that even in Ching dynasty (died 100 years ago), official documents didn't use punctuations. But since I am no historian or language expert, maybe I am wrong.
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Actually, Chinese do have punctuations not later than the Qin (秦) Dynasty (221-207 B.C.) but this is very uncommon and have no official rules. Punctuations standards are introduced unofficially right after the Ching Dynasty and officially by the PRC Government and Taiwan Government afterwards.