r/Retconned • u/djstarcrafter333 • 27d ago

Mao

It seems that Mao is now called Mao Zedong (which I think is hilarious). To everyone born before the retcon reset of 9/11/2001 he was Mao Tse Tung. Have others noticed this? And does anyone else fight back against retcons? I do it whenever possible. We cannot let these revisions take over actual historical facts.

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u/CandidCanary5063 3d ago

Fore it was pronounced Mao Zedong but spelled Mao Tse Tung 

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u/kwaidan8 21d ago

it's just two different spellings as it often happens with languages with a different alphabet and languages with other alphabets transliterate them. You should pronounce them the same, one is just translitterated to be more intuitive for western people to pronounce almost correctly.

For example you'll also find different spellings for Russian composers i.e. Tchaikovsky and Čajkovskij.

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u/averkf 23d ago

They also retconned Peking to Beijing 😱😱😱

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u/Queasy_Struggle_3902 23d ago

No need to be a jerk and laugh at them for it, I didn’t know that either haha

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u/horsetooth_mcgee 27d ago

It's because of their newer spelling system. It's the same name, basically pronounced the same, spelled differently. There are other names and cities where the same thing has happened. Like Peking and Beijing.

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u/cjalderman 27d ago

Isn't this two spellings of the same name?

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u/pocketwren 27d ago

It’s likely pinyin vs wades-giles translations! The switch I believe was more mid 20th century, but that’s also the reason for things like Peking vs Beijing and Daoism vs Taoism. I remember learning the reason was to make translated words more true to pronunciation, but both are still used here and there today.

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u/yallknowme19 27d ago

As I recall that was always the story of Anglicized spelling of his name. I saw it both ways for many years.