Re: Confucius and the rectification of names

FWIW, nationality is my default interpretation of words like
"Chinese".. The ethnicities don't map well to political borders in any
event, but I would usually say "of Chinese descent" or similar.
Of course, that leaves us needing to distinguish somehow between the
PRC and the ROC.  We have "Taiwanese" for the latter but "Chinese" is
still ambiguous in isolation.  "Mainland Chinese' is a mouthful, and
"Red Chinese" seems to be politically incorrect these days.

On 5/13/07, Eugene Oh <un.doing@...> wrote:
> 2007/5/13, Richard Kennaway <richard@...>:
> >
> > I am wondering if anything similar ever happened in China.  Did
> > Confucius, or anyone else, ever try to carry out such a
> > "rectification of names".
> >
> > --
> > Richard Kennaway
> >
>
> In modern times, there is current Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian,
> who wants to "rectify" the name of the ROC to "Taiwan" in all official
> documents. Which, of course, has riled the "China-nese" (China people,
> as opposed to the Chinese as an ethnicity) terribly.
>
> Eugene
>

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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