The Krebs cycle
Glycolysis
Pyruvate oxidation
There are several different reasons depending on the perspective you look at it.
If you're looking at it from the government perspective, then this was due to the fact that they wanted to get rid of the tradition and have a complete take over of the culture by getting rid of it.
Other explanations are that they wanted to switch an alphabet or genuinely wanted to simplify the actual characters.
Hope this helps!
The pronoun is "it" and the antecedent is "a miniature glass hippopotamus".
Extra information:
The word antecedent is composed out of two Latin words: ante and cedere, and it literally means: the "preceding", meaning it refers to the word that precedes the pronoun, that the pronoun refers to. This is not important for the question, but it is important to remember that the antecedent is always in front of the pronoun!
The third one is what most people use in China
