鲍罗廷 (Bàoluótíng): Borodin (transliteration); comm…

Meanings

1 Borodin (transliteration); commonly refers to Mikhail Borodin (1884-1951), Soviet Comintern advisor to the Kuomintang in 1920s China; also Alexander Borodin (1833-1887), Russian composer and chemist

Characters

鲍

bào

(transliteration; lit. abalone)

罗

luó

(transliteration; lit. net)

廷

tíng

(transliteration; lit. court)

Examples

鲍罗廷曾担任孙中山的政治顾问。

Bàoluótíng céng dānrèn Sūn Zhōngshān de zhèngzhì gùwèn.

Borodin once served as Sun Yat-sen's political advisor.

作曲家鲍罗廷写过歌剧《伊戈尔王》。

Zuòqǔjiā Bàoluótíng xiě guò gējù 《Yīgē'ěr Wáng》.

The composer Borodin wrote the opera Prince Igor.

Tips

history

In Republican-era Chinese history texts, 鲍罗廷 almost always means Mikhail Borodin (Михаил Бородин), the Comintern agent who helped reorganise the KMT and shaped the first KMT-CCP United Front (1923-27). Outside that context (e.g. classical music) it points to Alexander Borodin instead.