Associate Professor Chou Chih-wen of Tamkang University observes that the Communists have inherited the anti-traditionalist spirit of the May 4th movement, and this combined with their ideology which embraces popular culture and uses it as a political tool, means that Mainland leaders 'views on matters concerning the writing system are very different from those held in Taiwan.
淡江大學副教授周志文指出，中共承繼五四以來反傳統的精神，加上共產黨人對文化不忌俗，以文化為政治工具的意識形態，使得大陸領導人在解釋文字問題方面，跟台灣想法顯著不同。