Talk:Duke Xiang of Qin

A fact from Duke Xiang of Qin appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 May 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Duke Xiang succeeded his father Duke Zhuang as ruler of the ancient state of Qin after his older brother refused to take the throne?

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Duke vs Lord[edit]

The English name is inaccurate, since the formal rank of Xiang-gong was zhuhou. It might be wise to follow the strategy of Birth of an Empire: The State of Qin revisited (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014, [1]), where gong is translated as Lord.--Shanghainese.ua (talk) 15:27, 23 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Any change in the translation of "gong" would require a discussion on WP:NC-ZH, as it would affect dozens of articles. As far as I know, the most common translation is still duke, although it's by no means universal. -Zanhe (talk) 20:27, 23 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]