Charles Holcombe, A history of East Asia: From the origins of civilization to the twenty-first century, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011, p. 7, ISBN 978-0-521-73164-5.
«Zhongguo — [...] Today, Zhongguo is probably the closest Chinese-language equivalent to the English word China. Even so, both the modern People's Republic of China, on the mainland, and the Republic of China (confined to the island of Taiwan since 1949) are still officially known, instead, by a hybrid combination of the two ancient terms Zhongguo and Huaxia: Zhonghua 中華.»
