Читать книгу 1434: The Year a Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance - Gavin Menzies, Gavin Menzies - Страница 3

Most names are rendered in Pinyin, which is now standard in China— for example, the modern spelling Mao Zedong, not Mao Tse-tung. For simplicity, however, I have retained the older form of Romanization known as Wade-Giles, for names that have long been familiar to Western readers. The Wu Pei Chi, for instance, is more readily recognized than the Wu Bei Zhi. I have also kept the more established spellings of Cantonese place-names, writing of Hong Kong and Canton, rather than Xianggang and Guangzhou. Inscriptions on navigational charts have been left in the older form, as have academic texts in the bibliography.