Re: Confucius and the rectification of names
| From: | Eugene Oh <un.doing@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 13, 2007, 14:30 |
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2007/5/13, Richard Kennaway <richard@...>:
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> 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".
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> Richard Kennaway
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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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