Over at TPD, guest host Lisa has a great post from Salon (Andrew Leonard, “Choosing Giles over Wade” 9/29/06) on the tangled history of the Wade-Giles system for romanizing Chinese. For those unfamiliar, it’s the difference between “Mao Tse-tung” and “Mao Zedong” or “Teng Hsiao-p’ing” and “Deng Xiaoping.” Attempts to find roman letter equivalents of [...]
TPD: Messrs. Wade and Giles
October 3rd, 2006 · 8 Comments
Tags: Chinese History
CDT: Foreign Scholars Protest China Policies
October 3rd, 2006 · No Comments
Via CDT, the Boston Globe has an article today on a petition signed by over fifty scholars and activists calling for a stop to the persecution of human rights activists in China.
“The Sept. 29 open letter posted on the Web site of the New York-based Human Rights Watch organization chiefly bore the signatures of some [...]
Tags: Chinese politics
