You mean there was a country called China 200 years back? I thought that each chinese empire a gave different "false" name to the country and only the CCP has made it "China"
What do they teach you in school?
china is the english name of zhongguo/zhonghua ä¸å›½/ä¸åŽ which means ' the nation in the middle' zhong means middle....guo means country/nation/stan........we cant control how westerners gonna name zhongguo/zhonghua in english language way........so if they think 'china' will do....then be it.
mainstream academic in china points out that the name zhongguo ä¸å›½ began to appeare around more than 2500 years ago in an ancient chinese poem collection《诗ç»ã€‹...
however offcial name of chinese kindom was a bunch of different dynasties like qin han tang dynasty....
the 1st chinese gov adopted the name zhongguo ä¸å›½ as the formal name of our nation was the republic of china (the power is in taiwan now) in 1912.......was KMT for ur info......not CPC who won the civil war and established PRC using zhongguo ä¸å›½ as the name that had been used for years..........
and pls.........if u dont know chinese history do not act like as if u could lecture us about any of it.