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I recently started very casually learning Chinese, this absolutely blew my mind along with the fact that verbs don't have a billion different forms depending on time and the object of the sentence like all the other languages I know.
So there is 他／她, but only in writing so you can be very disrespectful and your conversation partner is none the wiser.