UDN Black & White Column Yu Shyi-kun Should Stop Exposing His Shortcomings

UDN Black & White Column

Yu Shyi-kun Should Stop Exposing His Shortcomings

Source: UDN

July 7, 2020

Legislative Speaker Yu Shyi-kun (游錫堃) made startling remarks again. When delivering remarks at the opening ceremony of the 12th Taipei Traditional Chinese Medicine International Forum 2020 on July 5, Yu indicated that traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) might as well be renamed as “Han medicine” or “Taiwanese medicine.”

The name change idea of TCM relates to the DPP’s thinking on de-sinicization, but the instance Yu gives is neither fish nor fowl. He stated that when “Han medicine” spread to other counties, only Taiwan called it TCM, which differed from the names used in South Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. Did Yu not know that “TCM” represented traditional Chinese medicine? Is it ignorance or playing dumb?

Yu has served as Legislative Speaker only for a little over four months, but he does a better job in making a fool of himself than getting things done. If Yu continued to expose his shortcomings, it would really harm Taiwan’s image.

[Editor’s note: China has been known to the world as Chin (秦), hence China, or Han (漢), hence 漢人 (Chinese), or Tang (唐), hence 唐人街 (China Town). The three were the greatest dynasties in China’s history.

[The Chin (秦) Dynasty predated the Roman Empire, and it was the Romans called China “Chin.” However, in Latin, there is no “ch” consonant sound, so the Romans pronounced the word “Chin” as “Sin”, hence China, even today, is known as Sinis in Latin, and its adjective as Sinica, as in Academia Sinica. Used in a compound adjective, Sinica becomes “Sino,” as in Sino-British Agreement of 1984, and used in a compound noun, there are a number of words, such as Sinology, and Sinicization.]

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