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Had no idea they tried getting rid of it in the 60s, but that I guess explains why I was told it was hidden when I asked to see it. In my family I think the se

Had no idea they tried getting rid of it in the 60s, but that I guess explains why I was told it was hidden when I asked to see it. In my family I think the second character is a generational name, from a poem or something selected way long ago and the third character is chosen by the recorder from a pool recycled for evey generation. Also fun, as a 1.5g banana without too many connections back home, my parents also worry a bit about how I'll get my kids entered should that ever come to pass after they are gone.

k_sze 6y ago
I would suggest getting in touch with a local chapter of your clan association (宗親會). To those who are not Chinese: yes, “clan association” is a thing among the Chinese, especially among clans who are likely to have expats - e.g. clans from coastal provinces like Shanghai, Guangdong, Fujian. My Shi clan has chapters in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, and probably at least a few major cities on the West Coast of the US.
- andromeduck 6y ago
  I'm a Deng, and don't think we have that though it's been suggested that I have the dubious honor of having been inscribed in the same book as mr Xiaoping. Whether that's actually true or not IDK but there's also the double irony of my parents almost having been killed in 89 but for a last minute decision to stay with the local movement. For a triple dose, one of them is a Trump/Bannon/Guo paleocon now, the other a mildy liberal pro XJP nationalist - and then there's me, the Hayeck/Nozick/Cato reading classical Liberal. Real fun.
  - xwolfi 6y ago
    Rejoice there is better now ! I was educated as an atheist democrat liberal in the French Republic and decided to migrate to China and make children there ! It goes both ways, there's bound to be an increased inbound migration to China from other philosophies and it's not obvious we won't end up contaminating them a bit too !
  - k_sze 6y ago
    Deng is a pretty big family name with many clans. Does your father or grand father still know the name of their Hall (堂號)? Alternatively, if you know a fragment of the poem, you can DuckDuckGo it and see.

k_sze 6y ago

I would suggest getting in touch with a local chapter of your clan association (宗親會). To those who are not Chinese: yes, “clan association” is a thing among the Chinese, especially among clans who are likely to have expats - e.g. clans from coastal provinces like Shanghai, Guangdong, Fujian. My Shi clan has chapters in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, and probably at least a few major cities on the West Coast of the US.

andromeduck 6y ago
I'm a Deng, and don't think we have that though it's been suggested that I have the dubious honor of having been inscribed in the same book as mr Xiaoping. Whether that's actually true or not IDK but there's also the double irony of my parents almost having been killed in 89 but for a last minute decision to stay with the local movement. For a triple dose, one of them is a Trump/Bannon/Guo paleocon now, the other a mildy liberal pro XJP nationalist - and then there's me, the Hayeck/Nozick/Cato reading classical Liberal. Real fun.
- xwolfi 6y ago
  Rejoice there is better now ! I was educated as an atheist democrat liberal in the French Republic and decided to migrate to China and make children there ! It goes both ways, there's bound to be an increased inbound migration to China from other philosophies and it's not obvious we won't end up contaminating them a bit too !
- k_sze 6y ago
  Deng is a pretty big family name with many clans. Does your father or grand father still know the name of their Hall (堂號)? Alternatively, if you know a fragment of the poem, you can DuckDuckGo it and see.