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Top 10 Questions Foreigners Love to Ask Chinese

Top 10 Questions Foreigners Love to Ask Chinese

Jan 29, 2012eChinacities.com

Which one is your first name?

For us Chinese, it's family name first and given name last – perfectly logical. But it's the other way around for Westerners so they often get confused when reading a Chinese name for the first time, and feel compelled to ask the above question. So as to avoid confusion, many Chinese living and working overseas have adopted the Westernized way of saying their names – given name first and family name last.

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