Word: switching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...switch "would be tremendously difficult," Wu said, adding, "I don't even want to think about...
...probably a good thing to switch because the Wade-Giles system can sometimes be a little misleading." Egan said. "But it would be a frightfully large undertaking for the library to convert. There are hundreds of thousands of cards in the catalogue all written in Wade-Giles," he said...
...said. "It might be very, very expensive to switch. And it would add some extra burden on Chinese students who would have to learn the Pinyin system. Unlike the newspapers, which just have to occasionally change a name, we would have to live with the system...
...said he was waiting to see if the Library of Congress and other East Asian libraries switch to Pinyin before deciding whether the Yenching Library should convert. "We also intend to talk to faculty and students. If the faculty very much wants Pinyin, I suppose we'll definitely have to switch," Wu said...
Patrick Tseng, Chinese area specialist for the Library of Congress, said yesterday. "It is very possible that we will switch, but we don't know when yet." Tseng added that if the Library of Congress does convert to Pinyin, other Chinese libraries will probably follow suit...