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ciainchina.bsky.social @ciainchina.bsky.social

I looked up this 1977 resolution and guess what? Andy lied. It doesn’t say that Pinyin must be used for “English”. It says that when Chinese place names are *Romanized*, Pinyin is the system to use, i.e. it was a decision to agree to use Pinyin over Wade-Giles to standardize Chinese place names.

jul 15, 2025, 6:33 am • 5 0

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ciainchina.bsky.social @ciainchina.bsky.social

In other words, it’s still okay to use names like Tibet, Inner Mongolia, the Yangtze, the Pearl River, Yellow Mountain, the Gobi Desert, etc, but if you want to write the name of the capital, it’s Beijing not Peking. That’s it.

jul 15, 2025, 6:36 am • 3 0 • view