Talk:Government of the Han dynasty

message: From my sandbox version, I have recently expanded this article and will submit it to a GA review shortly.--Pericles of AthensTalk 23:17, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the title! It sounds authoritative. Lol. Yeah, the article is pretty damn sweet, huh? The main Han Dynasty is next: full steam ahead!--Pericles of AthensTalk 08:51, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure, that sounds like a role for Society and culture of the Han Dynasty, or perhaps a new article altogether. In any case, we should discuss this further at one of our private talk pages (since article talk pages deal strictly with the article).--Pericles of AthensTalk 10:02, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Expansion

message: A big thanks to User:Baffle gab1978 for copyediting this article. You did a thorough, heck of a job. A round of applause. Cheers, buddy.--Pericles of AthensTalk 04:42, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Woohoo! This article just became featured! Thanks to you. Cheers.--Pericles of AthensTalk 04:26, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Pericles, Well Done, Nice article! I notice that you've only used traditional characters - is there a reason for that? I don't mind adding simplified to fit with WP:MOS-ZH. Best, ► Philg88 ◄ talk 06:33, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Thank you Baffle Gab!

message: As excellent as this article is, it is a little clunky about the way it introduces the titles of governmental positions. Maybe it's just because there are so many different offices described in the article, but all the "(also known as ...)" breaks up the consistency quite a bit. I know User:PericlesofAthens is using mostly de Crespigny as source for English renderings, but I wonder what the point is of including the old Bielenstein renderings instead of more recent alternative translations, and really what the point is of all the "also known as" at all. It's confusing to a non-specialist and haphazard to a specialist.
This article is probably the single article that would benefit most from some streamlining of Chinese title translation, and it was partially in the interest of improving the article past its already excellent state that I set up a reference and discussion page about the topic at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Chinese_history/Translation_of_Han_Dynasty_titles. Hopefully we can get some discussion going there and see if there is some way we can make translating Han Dynasty titles work more smoothly.
Snuge purveyor (talk) 20:55, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarifying Titles 

message: Similarly, the article currently linked for Han "districts" has absolutely nothing to do with them but is about modern 区.
Even worse, the article includes the statement
:If the word "district" is encountered in the context of ancient Chinese history, then the word is a translation for xian, another type of administrative division in China.
which is obviously not the case here, where counties are 縣 and what's being described as districts are 乡, which we cover in our article on township (China).
It's just a huge mess at the moment. It would help some to add the characters besides the names, but all of the links and even pages need to be reworked. — LlywelynII 17:11, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: What is a district?

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