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The biggest source of confusion is with the surname/given-name ordering. Chinese folks put their surname first and their given name last. E.g. Wei Zhang in the
by yen223 11y ago
The biggest source of confusion is with the surname/given-name ordering. Chinese folks put their surname first and their given name last.
E.g. Wei Zhang in the story should be Zhang Wei - his surname is Zhang.
I won't be surprised if he goes by Wei Zhang because that's how his name appears on official documents.
- schoen 11y agoThat's definitely a big source of confusion, but in the case of Wei Zhang, he uses the Western name order on his own homepage and for his e-mail address. https://www.math.columbia.edu/~wzhang/ https://www.math.columbia.edu/~wzhang/ (Yes, it's possible that someone else originally chose this order for him.)