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Bytes Europe<p>What’s in a Chinese name: scientists fight for identity when forced to use Latin alphabet <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/876739/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/876739/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BeihangUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BeihangUniversity</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ChengGong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChengGong</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ChineseAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChineseAuthors</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ChineseLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChineseLanguage</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ChineseLanguageInScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChineseLanguageInScience</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ChineseNames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChineseNames</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ChineseNamesInScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChineseNamesInScience</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ChineseResearchers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChineseResearchers</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GenderEquality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenderEquality</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/JiangsuNormalUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JiangsuNormalUniversity</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PetroChinaResearchInstitute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PetroChinaResearchInstitute</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/pinyin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pinyin</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PinyinNamesInScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PinyinNamesInScience</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ScienceNet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceNet</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UniversityOfScienceAndTechnologyBeijing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityOfScienceAndTechnologyBeijing</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Wuhan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wuhan</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/YuanBo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YuanBo</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ZhangQifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ZhangQifa</span></a></p>
Kirt in Queensland<p>what on earth is going on in this sentence? i might try to work this out for myself later, just thinking aloud for now…</p><p>"Hong Wei Xian, a/k/a "Harry Zan," 32, and Li Li, a/k/a "Lea Li," 33, both from the People's Republic of China (PRC)" from <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/2-chinese-nationals-charged-illegally-attempting-export-military-satellite-components" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ice.gov/news/releases/2-chines</span><span class="invisible">e-nationals-charged-illegally-attempting-export-military-satellite-components</span></a> </p><p>"a/k/a" is bizarre, but not very interesting, the names are more interesting.</p><p>I would guess that the first names listed are the standard transcriptions of their names in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Pinyin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pinyin</span></a> from Simplified Chinese?</p><p>But why is it different in their English names? </p><p>Harry and Lea make sense, the closest common English name … but Zan is weird?</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Taiwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Taiwan</span></a> uses a different system to Pinyin … but would the USA refer to them as being from the PRC? and if they were a Taiwanese spy working for the PRC to steel microchip making secrets, they'd be in Taiwan?</p><p>Maybe Hong Kong or Macau ?</p><p>Maybe judder easier to spell for Americans? but then a Pinyin X would be an S or Sh if you wrote it more phonetically? </p><p>Maybe a spy alias that's not even supposed to be the same name?</p><p>cc other mes <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@kirt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kirt@mastodon.social</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://lingo.lol/@Kirt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Kirt@lingo.lol</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PRC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PRC</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/HongKong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HongKong</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Macau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Macau</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ChineseLanguages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChineseLanguages</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ChineseNames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChineseNames</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SimplifiedChinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SimplifiedChinese</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TraditionalChinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TraditionalChinese</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Mandarin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mandarin</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Cantonese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cantonese</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/HongWeiXian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HongWeiXian</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/XianHongWei" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XianHongWei</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/HarryZan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HarryZan</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/LiLi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiLi</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/LeaLi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeaLi</span></a></p>
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