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That ought to be "Chinese Govt. Blacks Out News of Dissident Liu Winning The Nobel Peace Prize". As originally written, it was kind of like saying "News of Diss
by CWuestefeld 16y ago
That ought to be "Chinese Govt. Blacks Out News of Dissident Liu Winning The Nobel Peace Prize". As originally written, it was kind of like saying "News of Dissident Bob..."
The Chinese put their family name first, and the given name second. Sometimes it's ambiguous because you don't know if the media report is westernizing the presentation. But in this case it's clearly wrong, because the two-syllable "Xiaobo" must be a given name because it's got two syllables.
- jteo 16y agoThe chinese given name is not always comprised exactly of 2 syllables; there are single syllable chinese given names.
- MikeCapone 16y agoIndeed. His Wikipedia page says that he is "married to Liu Xia."
- gruseom 16y agoRead the comment again. You've misread its Boolean logic (assuming it hasn't been edited).
- andrew1 16y agoI know nothing about Chinese names but the original comment might have meant that it must be a given name because a family cannot have two syllables. No idea if that's true or not though!
- barkingcat 16y agochinese family names can have multiple syllables. Not often, but they do exist. Most times it's caried from ancestry that's not han chinese but there are so many ethnicities and so much intermixing within china that family name no longer carries any signifiers to bloodline, etc
- acangiano 16y ago> But in this case it's clearly wrong, because the two-syllable "Xiaobo" must be a given name because it's got two syllables. And it's confirmed by the fact that his wife is Liu Xia.
- reedlaw 16y agoWives don't take their husbands' family names in China. If she is named Liu, it's just a coincidence (Liu is one of the most common family names).
- acangiano 16y agoThank you for teaching me something new. Wikipedia agrees: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Married_and_maiden_names#China_and_Taiwan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Married_and_maiden_names#China_...
- sharadgopal 16y agoedited.