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by douche 3359 days ago
Which is supremely confusing as a student of history of that region of the world. Trying to figure out whether a book or article used Pinyin or Wade-Giles, one of the other competing systems, a mishmash of several, or (especially in older sources) made up their own method, made it very interesting trying to keep track of where things were happening and who was doing them.