25 Feb 2009

Chinese Conventional Place Names [converted from Wade-Giles to pinyin]
Cataloging Policy And Support Office, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, US.
Self-description:
"The Library of Congress is beginning the process of revising the Chinese place names currently established in a conventional English-language form to the form used by the United States Board on Geographic Names. This process began in August 1998 when the Library conducted a pilot project to test the feasibility of making these changes. The Library is now ready to proceed with the other names it has identified for change. This list will appear in Cataloging Service Bulletin, no. 83, Winter 1999. The list consists primarily of the provinces and the provincial capitals and other major cities.
In general the change will be made to the name authority record for the geographic name as the beginning point. [...] The intent is to post on this page those main headings that have been changed and the status of the changes made to other authority records that have used that heading. These changes are being made before the Library converts from the Wade-Giles system of romanization for Chinese to pinyin because many of the forms used for these geographic headings cannot be converted easily by machine manipulation since they are not systematically romanized from Wade-Giles."
Site contents:
[For all provinces in PRC, and for all major cities in each province, details of the:] * Former Heading; * Revised Heading; * Month Changed.
[The document, entirely in Latin script, was last updated on Jul 15 1999. It is a fragment of a larger constellation of files catalogued by the page Library of Congress Pinyin Conversion Project, http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pinyin/ - ed.]
URL http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/china.html
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