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Changing names of Singapore in Chinese (singaporeccc.org.sg)
submitted 1 year ago by cendawanita@kbin.social to c/magASEAN@kbin.social
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I’ve wondered why, even as of early 1970s, you frequently find both "星加坡" and "新加坡" for the name of #Singapore (星洲 only much more rarely by this time) in Chinese, sometimes side by side in titles in the same journal (image from index of articles in 南洋文摘 1972). I didn’t know that the name wasn’t standardized until April 1972 (though writers don’t seem to have gotten the message too quickly judging by other 1970s volumes). Some useful history of the name: https://singaporeccc.org.sg/zh-hans/chinese-names-of-singapore/
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