Timeline for Is there any official way to translate Chinese names into English?
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| Jul 27, 2020 at 6:44 | history | edited | Becky 李蓓♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 22, 2014 at 22:41 | vote | accept | Mou某♦ | ||
| Jun 14, 2014 at 16:28 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackChinese/status/477849978098835456 | ||
| Jun 10, 2014 at 18:56 | answer | added | noname | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 16:50 | comment | added | Semaphore | Names are names. It's not like you'd be translating 毛泽东 into Hair Favor East; how is keeping the order "not translating"? The only important bit is that people understand who you are referring to. Mucking around with the order is quite unnecessary. When it comes to historical characters, Japanese names are usually translated as surname first too. 源義経 is virtually always rendered as Minamoto no Yoshitsune, for example. | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 16:06 | answer | added | Archeosudoerus | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 9, 2014 at 19:49 | answer | added | user5714 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 9, 2014 at 14:48 | comment | added | Mou某♦ | @Maroon what about like novels and stuff? I read a translated novel where it was still very chinglish Zhang Xiaoming-type-ish stuff...makes it very unnatural for an English read | |
| Jun 9, 2014 at 8:53 | comment | added | user5714 | Commenting since this isn't really an answer per se. It really depends. While names like Wen Jiabao are commonly kept in "Eastern" naming order, names used among personal interactions with "small fry" are sometimes used in the Western order, particularly in a Western context - for instance, in an international school in Asia, 张小明 would probably be referred to (in English, I mean) as Xiaoming Zhang. But in other places (e.g. the BBC, official usage by places that already use Chinese (e.g. Hong Kong, China)) the Eastern order seems to be kept. | |
| Jun 9, 2014 at 4:48 | answer | added | Kiddy | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 9, 2014 at 4:28 | history | asked | Mou某♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |