New Resource: Lasting Peace Br. Pīnyīn+ Web Material
[NOTE: For spiritual food (which is for you yourself to learn spiritual things from, and which ideally should be in your own mother tongue), please go to jw.org.
The supplementary language-learning material mentioned in this post is for helping you to learn about how the Mandarin language is used in an official publication, so that you will be better able to help others in the Mandarin language field.]
The Lasting Peace (pc) brochure is an unusual, perhaps even unique official theocratic publication in that it was written specifically for Chinese people, and it was first written in Chinese. Here is a quote from the 1996 Yearbook about this brochure:
At the Chinese convention in New York, a new brochure entitled Lasting Peace and Happiness—How to Find Them was released. It was made available in both traditional and simplified Chinese. This brochure is designed for the Chinese field and will be given extensive distribution wherever possible. It is not at present scheduled for translation into English.
Eventually, this brochure was translated into English, Spanish, French, Italian, etc., greatly helping Chinese field language learners in many lands to be able to make good use of this brochure in their local Chinese fields.
To help us Mandarin field language learners to be prepared language-wise to make good use of this brochure without being unnecessarily hindered by the Great Wall of Chinese characters that’s mandated by mere human tradition and cultural pride, the following unofficial Pīnyīn+ web material resource is being made available:
- Lasting Peace Br.
(Pīnyīn+, Web)
(rich information about Mandarin speech
for discussing Bible truths
with Chinese persons,
as represented by the text of the
Mandarin Lasting Peace brochure,
2009 Printing, proofread, mobile-friendly,
“flashcards” integrated with the text,
(tap/click on a Pīnyīn expression to reveal its “flashcard”,
tap/click on a “flashcard” or its Pīnyīn expression
to hide the “flashcard”),
Pīnyīn (Pinyin) used as the default writing system,
carefully done human-translated
context-appropriate English translations
with literal & effective meanings,
Simplified & Traditional characters,
📖 Reveal All, 📄 Reveal Advanced, and
➕ Reveal + Symbols controls
for all the “flashcards” and + symbols
in a section, paragraph, etc.,
links for getting around,
picture thumbnails & links,
Dark mode selectable with the
dropdown control at the top right,
adjustable text size)
(Info re offline viewing and printing) - Short Links:
Links > Publications > Brochures >
Lasting Peace Brochure Links (tiandi.info/pc)
In the above resource, material matching both the current 2009 Printing of the Mandarin Lasting Peace brochure and the current 2026 Study Edition (nwtsty) of the Mandarin NWT Bible is now available that covers the following:
Proofread and Partially Proofread Pīnyīn+ Material:
- P. 13, Par. 1 to the End of P. 23
Material with a grey background has been partially proofread.
Older Pīnyīn 3-line PDF material covering the first part of the Lasting Peace brochure can be found at:
- Lasting Peace Brochure
(Chinese-Pīnyīn-English, iPad-Letter-A4, LN-A)
(proofread, Front Cover to p. 12, Box p. 25) - Lasting Peace Brochure
(Chinese-Pīnyīn-English, XLP-iPhone-A5, LN-A)
(proofread, Front Cover to p. 12, Box p. 25)
More current-generation Pīnyīn+ web material based on the current printing of the Mandarin Lasting Peace brochure will be made available in the above-mentioned Pīnyīn+ resource as time allows.
(NOTE: While the organization expresses valid general concerns here about posting copies of official publications to the Internet, there are good legal and spiritual reasons for concluding that those concerns do not apply to this particular material, since such material should NOT be considered to be infringing on copyright, and since such material is specifically designed to be, NOT SPIRITUAL FOOD, but rather, material FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING. See this disclaimer for more information.)
