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Writing Systems
There is only one writing system up until 1950's or so.
After the end of the Manchu rule in 1911, distinguished scholars gathered to develop a phonetic system. The syllables were determined easily enough. However, there was argument over the system of representation. Therefore, several sets of symbol systems were created to represent the same syllables, includin one that mimicked English, and one that mimicked the Japanese katakana. The Nationalists adopted the ZhuYin, or the one that mimicked the Japanese.
In 1949 Jiang JieShi (Chiang Kaishek) and the Nationalists left Mainland China under Mao ZeDong (Mao Tsetong)'s rule, creating the cross-strait enmity present today. Mao Tse-Tong, in order to differentiate P.R. China from R. China, developed and promoted a "simplified form" of Chinese as the writing system, and PinYin (English-based) as the phonetic system. The simplified form of Chinese borrows heavily from the fast cursive (Cao Shu) of the ancient Chinese, where complicated lines were blurred into one.
The following says "Strings of Fate" in the corresponding writing system:
Republic of China (Taiwan): -Traditional, ZhuYin

People's Republic of China (Mainland): -Simplified, PinYin

Notice that the simpler words were kept in its original form in the Simplified System, while the complicated ones were.. well, simplified.