{"id":2297,"date":"2011-07-13T21:15:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T02:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:33:00","slug":"names-and-dates-in-english-and-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2011\/07\/names-and-dates-in-english-and-chinese\/","title":{"rendered":"Names and Dates In English and Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently discovered <a title=\"Beijing Time Machine\" href=\"http:\/\/beijingtimemachine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beijing Time Machine<\/a>, run\u00a0 by Jared Hall. His recent piece <a href=\"http:\/\/beijingtimemachine.com\/time-over-place-naming-historical-events-in-c\" target=\"_blank\">Time over Place: Naming Historical Events in Chinese<\/a> (ironically, it is not dated), is a striking and useful observation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In English, we generally recall important turning points in terms of where they unfolded. Simple place names conjure up entire historical epochs. &#8220;Pearl Harbor&#8221; marks the American entrance into the Second World War and the global struggle against fascism. &#8220;Bandung,&#8221; the conference in of newly independent African and Asian nations that pledged to stand together in 1955 against imperialism and Cold War division. And then, of course, there is &#8220;Tian&#8217;anmen.&#8221; It is doubtful that mention of the square here in China would, by itself, raise any eyebrows. But try &#8220;6-4&#8221; (\u516d\u56db) and you are can expect quite a different reaction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is also a useful chart of name years in the sixty year cycle, which you can download to put on your desk calendar or refrigerator door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently discovered Beijing Time Machine, run\u00a0 by Jared Hall. His recent piece Time over Place: Naming Historical Events in Chinese (ironically, it is not dated), is a striking and useful observation: In English, we generally recall important turning points in terms of where they unfolded. Simple place names conjure up entire historical epochs. &#8220;Pearl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[165,116,119,129,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-east-vs-west","category-english","category-historiography","category-web-sites-and-resources"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-B3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4565,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions\/4565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}