Chinese Postal Map Romanization (
Traditional Chinese: 郵政式拼音;
Pinyin: Yóuzhèngshì Pīnyīn) refers to the system of romanization for Chinese place names which came into use in the late
Qing dynasty and was officially sanctioned by the Imperial Postal Joint-Session Conference (帝國郵電聯席會議), which was held in
Shanghai in the spring of
1906. This system of romanization was retained after the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1912 and since it was in use in the official postal atlas of the
Republic of China, it remained the most common way of rendering Chinese place names in the West (for
cartographers for example) for a large part of the twentieth century. Following the establishment of the
People's Republic of China, the system has gradually been replaced by
Hanyu pinyin, which is now almost universally accepted.
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