UTC Chinese popularity In case this section ever comes back to the article it should probably go into some article about Hamlet really I ll just note here that this soliloquy is by far the most famous piece of Shakespeare in modern China Now that has to do with the fact that Chinese culture is built on puns to be sounds like two be which can be written 2B which in Chinese is pronounced RB B which sounds like which is the somewhat politer version of which technically means double c but thanks to the Chinese equivalents of dumb c is used in the sense of f in idiot 2B or not 2B 10 21 13 December 2013