Hi!

Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@...> writes:

> I am studying Chinese and Japanese characters and have
> become very interested in the various simplified forms
> and in other character variants.
>
> Specifically I have read that China officially
> introduced the simplified character reform in two
> phases in 1956 and 1964. However, I have been unable
> to find any more detailed report. There must have been
> official documents detailing the change in each
> character, the changes in radicals and other recurring
> character components, and the conflation of several
> traditional characters into one simplified character.

You can download the unihan.txt file from www.unicode.org.
It contains a mapping from non-simplified to simplified.

**Henrik