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[clevermanka]

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According to the Guardian prologue, the planet where the story takes place is called Seastar (in the subtitles I remember, anyway), and I understood that term to be separate from Haixing which is (as I interpreted it) the word for the China-nation equivalent. Is this an accepted standard? McKitterick thought Haixing was the name of the planet which, once he said it, doesn't seem an unreasonable assumption. Where does fandom stand on this? It's kind of important for how I phrase things in Deconstruction.

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[teaotter]

One possibility: Haixing (the country) calls the planet Haixing and the native people Haixingren, but people in other countries don't. Maybe the country's government views itself as stewards of the planet because they have the main portal to Dixing and the Treaty?

[clevermanka]

Haixing (the country) calls the planet Haixing and the native people Haixingren, but people in other countries don't.
"Yes we are calling our country after the name of the planet for Secret Reasons We Aren't Disclosing But Definitely Have Nothing To Do With Aliens."

*laugh-cry emoji*

[teaotter]

My brain is on vacation without me this weekend, so this may not make any sense. If so, sorry!

But I was thinking the other way around: 'Here in Haixing, we call the planet Haixing, and we don't care if you stupid foreigners call it Earth.'

Thinking about this more, I think it's also possible that Haixing is what the Dixingren call the planet. Like, they walked through the portal and asked the humans they met where they were, and the humans said 'oh, this is Haixing!' And the Dixingren assumed it was the name of the planet, not just the country.

But it sure sounds like Haixing and Dixing are names in the same language, at any rate.

[clevermanka]

Here in Haixing, we call the planet Haixing, and we don't care if you stupid foreigners call it Earth
Can you imagine tho? "We're calling this planet AMERICA and fuck all y'all!" I mean, it's certainly not outside the realm of possibility (looks around at the nationalism running rampant all over the place in reality). Not saying mistakes aren't made, but the government on the show doesn't seem that...bad?

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