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Thread: China dream or Chinese dream? Which sounds better?
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[quote=WANHU,505741]Dear BBQQ People tend to use words according to what they like. The word "China" has been used to refer to Zhong Guo long before the Second World War. Probably the root word is from Qin (that sounds like Chin). We in Malaysia call China as cheena and not chaina as pronounced by the westerners. The Arabs, due to its absence of the letter CH, call China as (al) Sin that probably refers to the Qin dynasty. Derogatory words are created by certain locality. Even the word Shanghai also has two meanings, one is the city in China, while another means kidnap, trick or intimidate. Even Thomas Walker Arnold (1864-1930) mentioned the word China in his famous book: the Preaching of Islam (pages 294-311) published in London by Constable & Co, in 1913. Wan[/quote]
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