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^ | 86 comments Help, please!

Ref “How To Cook And Eat In Chinese” by Buwei Yang Chao

The book in my hand is a 1956 edition of “How To Cook And Eat In Chinese” “First published in mcmlvi by Faber & Faber Limited”. GR currently has a record for this book title, author Yang Chao Buwei

Worldcat records three arrangements of the author’s name: “Buwei Yang Chao”, “Yang Chao Buwei, and “Pu-wei Yang Chao” against this title.

The Library of Congress likewise recognises different arrangements of the author’s name, see: http://authorities.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pw...

Question: Do I create an edition record per the book in my hand (by Buwei Yang Chao), first British edition, or do I enter the author’s name as Yang Chao Buwei and add a Librarian’s Note to explain these are one and the same author, just different usages of the name?

A wider decision also needs to be made: how does Goodreads want to group the different books/editions written by Buwei Yang Chao / Yang Chao Buwei / Pu-wei Yang Chao?
(note: I haven’t actually looked at this time to see if Pu-wei Yang Chao is on GR).

Please advise. If GR’s ‘market’ in China grows; this type of question will doubtless appear more frequently.

With thanks

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Banjomike | 5166 comments We already have some of those

Buwei Yang Chao
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Yang Chao Buwei
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
and a Chao Pu-Wei
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

I would use the name on the cover. That is the name that someone will use to add a book so if we don't use it someone else will add it anyway. You can then add links on each author page to the other variants of the name.


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^ | 86 comments Many thanks!


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