Roots Companion 尋根

By Yiwen Luo on AppTrack Ninja.

Chinese-American name decoder

A photocopied file arrives from the National Archives. The applicant is "Lee Tah Fu". A related paper says "S.N.D." The village is on no map you can find. You read English and some Mandarin, and none of it connects. It does not connect because the name was written down by an English-speaking clerk listening to a dialect he did not speak, using no standard at all. It was usually Toisanese, which no romanization system was ever built for — so Pinyin will never find it. WORK OUT HOW THE NAME WAS SPELLED Type Chinese characters and see the spellings a clerk might have written; type a spelling fro…

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