Although the position of simplified characters seems unshakable, in recent years there has been a quiet traditionalist trend in the mainland. Some academic treatises (particularly in literature and history) are now published in traditional characters; it has also become fashionable for shop and restaurant signs to be written in traditional characters.
而且別看簡體字的地位似乎已經難以撼動，近幾年來大陸其實有悄悄「復古」的趨勢，不僅學術界（尤其是文史領域）有用正體字出版的論文，連商家餐館等，也流行用正體字寫招牌。