Midge Raymond

Midge has edited and co-produced every edition of The Web Globalization Report Card. She has more than a decade of experience in writing, editing, and publishing, having worked with such publishing houses as Penguin Putnam, St. Martin's Press, Bantam, and Houghton Mifflin. She taught communication writing at Boston University, where she earned her master's degree in international communication. An award-winning writer, she writes for both print and web publications. She is author of the award-winning short story collection Forgetting English and the novel My Last Continent.

Celebrating the “Father of Pinyin”

January 16, 2017 by Midge Raymond

I was saddened to read that “the father of Pinyin” died this weekend in Beijing (though he did live to be 111 years old). While until now I never knew very much about the man himself — who daringly criticized …