3 ms·
Well, Lee Kuan Yew’s surname is indeed Lee, but Chinese names are sometimes written with the surname at the end in other languages: thus C.K. Tang, Wen Ho Lee,
by eynsham 3y ago
Well, Lee Kuan Yew’s surname is indeed Lee, but Chinese names are sometimes written with the surname at the end in other languages: thus C.K. Tang, Wen Ho Lee, and so on. And, indeed, if one were also discussing the times of Lee Hsien Loong, it would be perfectly reasonable to write of ‘Kuan Yew’s times’. But people writing of ‘Yew’s times[sic]’ do betray how little they’ve read about Singapore.
- delta_p_delta_x 3y ago> Chinese names are sometimes written with the surname at the end in other languages, thus C.K. Tang, Wen Ho Lee This is an Anglicisation through and through. In Mandarin Chinese and most Chinese dialects (and Korean, for the record), the surname comes first. XI Jinping MAO Tse-tung LEE Kuan Yew TSAI Ying-Wen HUANG Jen-Hsun KIM Jong-un BAN Ki-moon If the person has a European first name, then it comes before the surname—Lisa Su, for instance. Lee Kuan Yew himself went by 'Harry Lee Kuan Yew' before he went into politics and he dropped the 'Harry'.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]