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Before I could begin reading the MCLC item on this interesting topic, I was brought up short by a phrase in the heading, in the run-up to the country’s 1949 reunification. Is reunification now the word to passively accept as we read? Incidentally, what is the Chinese for this?
A long time ago, this word was Liberation, was it not? used without cavil by nearly all in the English language. More recently, it has been 新中國, not yet, as far as I know, adopted into English usage. Reunification is new to me. Perhaps listserve readers have information.
Earlier this week, MCLC posted an item from South China Morning Post that pointed out a change in textbook usage regarding a historic and historical date in Hong Kong history - from handover of sovereignty via taking back to the plain erasure of using the date alone, since July 1, 1997. It is easy to feel pessimistic about the usefulness of writing alone, but perhaps there can be at least such a piece of writing about changing nomenclature since 1949.
Best regards,
Eva Chou <choues at gmail.com>
by denton.2 at osu.edu on May 5, 2018
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