The Chinese language: fact and fantasy, John DeFrancis, University of Hawaii Press, 1984, ISBN 978-0-8248-1068-9, ... Sometimes use of one radical or another can have a special significance, as in the case of removing an ethnic slur from the name of the Zhuang minority in southwest China, which used to be written with the dog radical but after 1949 was first written with the human radical and was later changed to a completely different character with the respectable meaning 'sturdy' ...
