Publications - Phone Book - Production - Hanyu Pinyin (Policy)
The file contains internal correspondences outlining Singapore's implementation of the Hanyu Pinyin Policy in the early 1980s, an initiative designed to promote Mandarin usage. This initiative involved adopting Hanyu Pinyin for new Chinese street names and incorporating it into the phone book index. The primary aims were to simplify name searches in the phone directory and to broaden the official use of Hanyu Pinyin for new street names. Additionally, the file includes newspaper clippings that provide insight into public responses to this language campaign.
Nov 1980 to Aug 1988
TAS1002 - 05
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