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Why "Baise" (an not Bose)? - see Cihai - --Reiner Stoppok 04:19, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bósè is the local name and also the older form which you will find in older dictionaries (Cihai); Bǎisè is the modern standard which you will find in newer dictionaries (Xiandai Hanyu cidian). --72.75.56.66 (talk) 23:20, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Old name 百色地区 ?[edit]

There's an article in cn.wiki zh:百色地区 seemingly refering to the older name of Baise I think... --katpatuka (talk) 18:17, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is confusing.[edit]

This is about a "prefecture-level city", which is a large subprovincial unit of Guangxi.

Without getting into pointless attempts to correlate chinese administrative terminology with English-language concepts ( which vary themselves between the various English-language countries ), there are a lot of questions which the reader may have, which are not really addressed by the current text at all.

Is there an actual large town or city ( in the plain English meaning of the word ), which is the "capital", in the general sense, of this sub-provincial reason ? Is it also called "Baise", or something else ? Is that what the "urban district" mentioned in the story is ? Do the locals, or indeed people in other places, actually call it that ? If so, how many people live there ? What town is the Baise Railway station located in ( or very near to ) ? Where are buses with the big sign on the front "Baise", actually going ?

This is a problem for many of the articles about Chinese cities, which are also the headquarters of large sub-provincial units which include large tracts of rural land and countless villages well beyond the urban area of the "city". It is also a problem in other countries - for example, contrast "the city of London", and "Greater London". However, those concepts are well explained in the relevant places - for these chinese "cities" which cover thousands of square kilometres of rural land and forests, they are not. Lathamibird (talk) 11:44, 11 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Baise or BaiSe or Bai Se is pronounced sort of like "buy-zuh". The Baise railway station is in Baise. That sure would be weird if it weren't... It's in the northeast of the city. But there are other stations on that same line just several minutes away. The ticket to there is relatively expensive, around $75 one-way on the train, but it is an amazing ride there. And yes, locals tend to call anything on that side of the Vietnam border "Baise", even if it's well outside the city. Don't ever try saying "Bose", no one will ever know what you are talking about. Most of the people are Zhuang people, and Baise is really different than other cities in China. I'd say it is a very nice city with very nice people, with food (produce, mainly) that is of vastly higher quality and lower prices than one would find in first tier Chinese cities. Nanning is the big town people talk about in Baise.66.245.201.216 (talk) 13:30, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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