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...Xurely you zhest," wrote Nancy May in a letter to the editor of the Boston Globe. "Now 1 have trouble with dzylophone and dzerox, and I still can't pronounce Xiaoping." Eugene Wu, director of Harvard University's Yenching Library, sounded depressed. "I don't even want to think about it," he moaned...
...oddly spelled worry and Mr. Wu's woe were both responses to the virtually worldwide acceptance by news organizations and academic institutions of a different system of spelling Chinese names in English, called Pinyin. The changeover was started by Peking (um, er, Beijing) on Jan. 1, when the government of Zhongguo (otherwise known as China) decreed that in all its foreign-language publications Pinyin would replace the traditional Wade-Giles system of romanization. Agencies of U.S., British, French and other Western governments subsequently followed suit, as did news media around the world, including TIME. (One notable exception: London...
...Wu Pin, Influences from Euope, and the Northern Sung Revival--Jakes Cahill, Norton lecturer, Science Center...
Bartok, Mozart, Beethoven--Robin Avery '80, piano; Larry Wu '80, violin; Dunster House Library...
Mozart, Beethoven, Wieniawski, Bartok--Rovin Avery '80, piano, Lawrence Wu '80, violin; Leverett House...