Talk:Boston Chinatown massacre

Chinese characters for Vietnamese names
Where did the Chinese characters for the names of the perpetrators come from? The Chinese characters for Nam The Tham (譚世南) would read as "Đàm Thế Nam" in Vietnamese - we can see that the surnames don't match. If we assume that the surname is the Vietnamese "Thẩm", then the character would be 譚. Likewise for Siny Van Tran (沈文生): the Chinese characters correspond to "Thẩm Văn Sinh" in Vietnamese. If we assume the Vietnamese surname to be "Trần", the character for the surname would have to be 陳. I added the fact tag for these characters until they could be confirmed with a source. DHN (talk) 20:24, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what the source is for those characters. added them  and can probably help with this question. — MarkH21talk 21:51, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty sure I got it from an unreliable source (scroll down to the entry by "rainbow" dated Sep 24, 2005 at 1:35 AM), which I meant to verify later and obviously never did. I used it because appeared to be copy-and-paste from a contemporary news article published in Chinese. I meant to try to find the original source but probably forgot to do so. I'll comment out the characters in the article for now. Cheers, Mliu92 (talk) 14:33, 24 May 2021 (UTC)


 * I found another questionable source, summarized above. Cheers, Mliu92 (talk) 16:09, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
 * 'Rainbow' appears to have been copied from: chinaqw.com.cn - not sure of the reliability of that source. It also uses simplified characters, which is another complication. Cheers, Mliu92 (talk) 16:16, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for replying. The ChinaQW source did specifically say that the names are transliterated ("名字皆译音"), presumably from English sources, so I wouldn't put too much stock in these characters. DHN (talk) 19:16, 24 May 2021 (UTC)