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At least, Goethe (Ge De 歌德, what a great name for a poet)'s title has been correctly translated in the sinophone world: Xidong shiji 西東詩集 ("West-Eastern Poem Collection") and not, say, Xidong shafa (sofa).
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I admire that he noted the pronunciation ju1 for the character 車 (the cart, a piece of the original xiangqi 象棋, aka "Chinese chess"), which reads that way only when it means the chess piece (it is che1 otherwise; many sinophone foreigners don't know the special "chess reading").
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