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Chinese people’s English names

A new book about Chinese people’s English names.

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To the Chinese media, is Obama “aobama” or “oubama”?

The US Embassy puts forth a new transliteration.

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I’m sorry, we can’t serve you here. Your name’s too popular

Too many Li Juns in Guangzhou, so a man couldn’t open a bank account.

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Samuel Ting on history and the Republic

A video clip extracted from an interview with CCTV’s TV show host Qu Xiangdong interviewing Nobel Prize Winner Samuel C.C. Ting.

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Zhao “left crescent” needs a new name

A man named Zhao C agreed to change his name to fit PSB computers. At issue: is ‘C’ a Pinyin letter?

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Living with an obscure name

A woman named 马CHENG has an obscure character in her name. Her passport and rental contract are able to work with it, but predictably, the PSB has problems.

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Problems with crazy characters

Can we name our kids ‘@’? A report from the ministry of education (中国教育部《中国语言生活状况报告》). Also, Liu Binjie (柳斌杰) on font sets.

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Sexy Beijing – Chinese people’s English names

Lost in Translation: Su Fei goes around Beijing asking Chinese people what their English names are, and why they need them.

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