Talk:Li (unit)
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Polished this article up, but was still left with the wildly divergant numbers and not enough sources online to fix. Most only give "standard" amounts for the "Warring States" period, which is a contradiction in terms since the states diverged during the period.
Article could still use
- Specifc changes over time, ideally charted, with an authoritative source listed
- A link to an era-specific converter if one can be found (there was one on a Taiwanese website that was taken down)
- Other uses of li in Chinese culture
- The original source for 1000 li walk quote
- More sources in general
- Traditional Vietnamese, Indonesian and Malay measurements that were likely based upon the li - I couldn't find anything on the internet about any Vietnamese units other than the metric ones, even though some travel guides list the country as "metric, with local variations" - whatever that means...
[edit] 77 meters???
I really question that. Perhaps more specific reference should be quoted. An 8X change was unbelievable. Kowloonese 23:20, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)
- Any reference at all would be great. This whole article seems to contradict itself. To paraphrase... "a li was 500 meters. A li was 576 meters." 77, 500, or 576m? It can't be all three. 134.131.125.49 20:48, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
- Well, it could be at separate times, but I am incredulous at the 77 figure.
[edit] 555 Meter?
I have found a source that claims that a li was 555 meter in the 1750s. --Ghormax 15:02, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] ROK
"In South Korea, however, the ri currently in use is a unit taken from the smaller Chinese li. It has a value of 10/33 millimeter."
- Who says? I just talked with three Koreans who have never been out of the country (a teacher, a nurse and a student of chinese), and they all agreed with-out a leading question (other than is the li a unit of measure in Korea?) that a li is about 0.4 km. Kdammers 12:41, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
