Talk:Chaozhou

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Should the content be merged with Shantou? olivier 09:14, 31 Jul 2003 (UTC)

No, because despite their intermingling thru out history (and apparently very flexible dominance), they are today separate cities on equal level, no longer dominated by one or another. I've added some history stuff to Shantou to clarify that, but I think one needs to know Chaozhou's history as well -- I'll add that in a minute. --Menchi 00:40, Aug 1, 2003 (UTC)

Sounds good. When I wrote the note above, the Chaozhou article was mentioning that another name for the city was Shantou. That's basically why I asked the question. Now, is there any difference between Shantou and Shantou City, and between Chaozhou and Chaozhou City? olivier 01:53, 1 Aug 2003 (UTC)

No difference. They refer to the same thing. It's just to clarify their level in governance, because a non-Chinese may find confuse Shantou as a neighbouring province, and Fujian to be a city. So "city" and "province" are placed where ambiguity could occur to harm the understanding. --Menchi 02:29, Aug 1, 2003 (UTC)

FYI, I also took out the reference in chiuchow cuisine of Shantou being aka Chaozhou. - Fuzheado 02:49, 1 Aug 2003 (UTC)

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