First, gendered pronouns have only been part of the Chinese language for 100 years: the feminine pronoun 她 (she) was only adopted in the 1920s. Second, although there are now distinct Chinese ...

We toss around “he,” “she,” and “they” like they've always been part of the English language, but only one of them, the pronoun "he,” actually dates back to the earliest form of English. The others?

This means all pronouns including demonstratives (i.e., words like “this” or “that”) had specific gender marked forms. Remember that the feminine third-person pronoun was ““hēo ...