Review of Red Pine’s translation of Liu Zongyuan

At Rhino.

Teaser quote: Why anyone is still using the Wade-Giles system of transliteration of Chinese into English I cannot fathom. Wade-Giles is a counterintuitive, cumbersome system that should never have been deployed in the public sphere. It has caused English speakers to mispronounce 1.4 billion Chinese words.

[originally posted Saturday 9 May 2020]