Vangelis - Chung Kuo

Chung Kuo is the title of a piece by Vangelis (first track on a 1979 album, China). Chung-Kuo is the Wade-Giles romanization of the Chinese word for China (中國/中国). Wade-Giles (pronounced /ˌweɪd ˈdʒaɪlz/; simplified Chinese: 威妥玛拼音 or 韦氏拼音; traditional Chinese: 威妥瑪拼音 or 韋氏拼音; pinyin: wēituǒmǎ pīnyīn), sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization system for the Mandarin language used in Beijing. It developed from a system produced by Thomas Wade during the mid-19th century, and was given completed form with Herbert Giles’ Chinese-English dictionary of 1892. Wade-Giles was the main system of transcription in the English-speaking world for most of the 20th century, used in several standard reference books and in all books about China published before 1979.[1] It replaced the Nanjing-based roman