It was Marco Polo's word. I think the original word was pronounced "chai-n" and according to some people was derived from Qin (as in the dynasty).

Because there are so much demolishing in progress nowadays in China.

china ---> chai na (pin yin) ---> 拆那 (in characters)

chai = 拆 = demolish, demolishing
na = 那 = (this character is just used for emphasizing here, no actual meanings.)

china is named after China.

That much is correct.

It was an old Victorian face giving tradition, the tea was from India so they pretended the cups and saucers came from Ceylon.

Better to cut all the racist stuff man, its tired!!!

Well, it was that or shithole of Asia, so in comparison China does not sound so bad.

The etymology of both "tea" and "China" are not known.

Or at least they are not agreed upon.

For our purposes it's just a matter of one poster quoting wiki, another raising a quote from Britannica, a third party seeing the Britannica quote and raising them a Websters reference and so on.

the Chinese nation originated in the Yellow River Basin area, ranking among the Quartet, and cultural well-developed, has a long history, it says that those places are China, also known as the Central Plains and China. Republic of China, The People's Republic of China have this as a national title.
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