Not sure why the mute “i” vowel in Mandarin always compels English speakers to turn whatever comes before it into a slurred “zh” sound but now almost 15 years into Xi’s rule and he’s still usually called “President Zhee” on anglophone TV.
David Stroup
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Sr. Lecturer of Chinese Politics at the University of Manchester. Associate editor for Nationalities Papers. Researching the everyday politics of ethnicity under authoritarianism and Islamophobia in the PRC.
