jhungary
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LOL what a logic. 中國 zhongguo is not China if you translate it. The name "China" just came up in the 19 century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_China
Zhongguo is the most common name for China. The first character zhōng (中 means "central" or "middle," while guó (國/国 means "state" or "states," and in modern times, "nation."
he is full of it.
People in Qing Dynasty NEVER refer their land to as 中國. back then they refer to their land as 中原 (Great Central Plain) which refer to the area of Greater China.
here is what Chinese Wikipeida said about that
中原是一個地域概念,是指以河南省為核心延及黃河中下游的廣大地區,[1]這一地區是中華文明的發源地,被華夏民族視為天下中心。[2]古人常將「中國」、「中土」、「中州」用作中原的同義語
Greater China plain is a geographic idea, ripping from Henan province expand to lower basin of Yellow River. This region is the Start of Chinese Culture, Chinese called it "Center of the Earth" In ancient time, people often refer "China 中國", "Central Earth 中土" and "Central Province 中州"
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至清朝後期,“中國”一詞已經有著超過三千年的使用歷史,一直只是作為一種泛指的词汇來使用,不曾將“中國”兩字明確作為其政體的直接名稱。清廷與西方國家交流時,虽然往往按照传统的观点以世界中心自居而使用“中國”這個名稱來稱呼自己,但在多数官方正式文书上还是把“大清”作为国号,与“中国”混合使用。
Til the end of Qing Dynasty, the word "China" have already been in use for 3000 years, until then it have been a generalisational term. Never was used as a reference to political entity. When Qing Dynasty communicate with the west, although they refer themselve as the word "Center of the earth" and call themselves that, official communication would still use "Greater Qing Empire" and mixed with the word China.
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this guy Wholegrain seems to learn history at a CPC youth school. what a epic failure! He just twistes the facts as he pleases.
I am pretty sure he know nothing about Chinese history expect maybe after Qing Dynasty. Even then, i still think he know actually nothing.