Talk:Prefectures of China

Imperial prefectures
Article is wrong. "Prefecture" is also used to refer to jun and fu. — Llywelyn II   04:48, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

Ancient sense
"Prefecture" is an English word. How does China have anything to do with the English word corresponding to different terms in Chinese? --2.245.168.183 (talk) 22:15, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
 * That misleading statement reflects a real & in fact quite significant problem: the "article" only appears to have a legitimate topic, bcz of the absence of clarification -- disambiguation, to be more specific -- of the distinct kinds of entities that have evolved under similar or perhaps different names, that have been translated into English under a single term.  Reach a tentative consesus on whether there is a primary sense or not. (I suggest disqualifying as "former" all senses not in active use by the PRC's agencies more recently than, say, a month or a year after the death of Mao.) --Jerzy•t 03:16, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Of course there's a primary sense.


 * The article just needs to be rewritten to stop pretending it's "about" any of the Chinese terms or that the Chinese terms are "unrelated".


 * This is article about prefectures, which is fairly consistently used in English to translate the main subprovincial/secondary divisions of China regardless of what the Chinese themselves were calling them at the time. — Llywelyn II   04:23, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Please add heading info
The chart in "Types of prefectural level divisions" uses headings that are not immediately understandable. Please add a legend near the chart to explain what the meaning of SP*, PLC, AP, P, L are. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.102.33.127 (talk) 16:57, 27 December 2017 (UTC)