Editing Wade–Giles (section)

==History==
Wade–Giles was developed by [[Thomas Francis Wade]], a scholar of Chinese and a British ambassador in China who was the first professor of Chinese at the [[University of Cambridge]]. Wade published ''{{lang|zh-Latn-wadegile|Yü-yen Tzŭ-erh Chi}}'' ({{zhi|first=t|t=語言自邇集|s=语言自迩集}})<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wade |first=Thomas Francis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fu0aAAAAYAAJ |title=Yü-yen Tzŭ-erh Chi: A Progressive Course Designed to Assist the Student of Colloquial Chinese, As Spoken in the Capital and the Metropolitan Department |publisher=Trübner |year=1867 |location=London |language=zh}}</ref>  in 1867, the first textbook on the [[Beijing dialect]] of [[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin]] in English,<ref name="Kaske2008">{{Cite book |last=Kaske |first=Elisabeth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=okhrBBmnHVQC |title=The Politics of Language in Chinese Education: 1895–1919 |publisher=Brill |year=2008 |isbn=978-9-004-16367-6 |page=68}}</ref> which became the basis for the system later known as Wade–Giles. The system, designed to transcribe Chinese terms for Chinese specialists, was further refined in 1892 by [[Herbert Giles]] (in ''[[A Chinese–English Dictionary]]''), a British diplomat in China, and his son [[Lionel Giles]],{{citation needed|date=September 2016}} a curator at the British Museum.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chinese Language Transliteration Systems – Wade–Giles |url=http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/skozerow/wadegiles.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070128065433/http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/skozerow/wadegiles.htm |archive-date=2007-01-28 |access-date=2007-08-04 |publisher=UCLA film and television archive}} (Web archive)</ref>

Taiwan used Wade–Giles for decades as the de facto standard, co-existing with several official romanizations in succession, namely, [[Gwoyeu Romatzyh]] (1928), [[Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II]] (1986), and [[Tongyong Pinyin]] (2000). The [[Kuomintang]] (KMT) has previously promoted pinyin with [[Ma Ying-jeou]]'s successful presidential bid in 2008 and in a number of cities with Kuomintang mayors.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} However, the [[Tsai Ing-wen]] administration and [[Democratic Progressive Party]] (DPP) along with the majority of the people in Taiwan, both native and overseas, use spelling and transcribe their legal names based on the Wade–Giles system, as well as the other aforementioned systems.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}