Excerpt from A History of China: Being the Historical Chapters From "the Middle Kingdom" A word ought to be said as to the spelling of proper names in this volume. Had a thorough revision been practicable the editor might have conformed to the Wade system, not because of its intrinsic superiority to others, but because of its general use in a matter where a clear majority ought to be law. While endeavoring to preserve the same forms throughout the vol ume, he has in the final chapter yielded to common usage in some ...
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Excerpt from A History of China: Being the Historical Chapters From "the Middle Kingdom" A word ought to be said as to the spelling of proper names in this volume. Had a thorough revision been practicable the editor might have conformed to the Wade system, not because of its intrinsic superiority to others, but because of its general use in a matter where a clear majority ought to be law. While endeavoring to preserve the same forms throughout the vol ume, he has in the final chapter yielded to common usage in some familiar names like Foochow, Kelung, etc., and has for the sake of simplicity abandoned the accent employed to mark the Italian i. In Korean names any scientific consistency in spelling is excessively difficult to attain, since with the no menclature of three languages to choose from foreign writers naturally vary widely in their selections. The place called in the text Ping yang, for example, is written P'z'ng jamy (or gang) in Chinese, Pityong yang in Korean, and Ilei j??? in Japanese, and so with every spot in that unblest and stricken peninsula. In general the consonants have their English values here while the vowels are sounded approximately as in Italian or Spanish, with the exception of 62 which corresponds with ??? in the Wade system and represents the short u in such words asfun, tun, etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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