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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He’s a Chinese national.[/quote] If you understand the Pinyin system in Chinese, you can easily tell if someone is from mainland China or not. Individuals from mainland China generally have Romanized names that follow Pinyin, although the very old do not (e.g., Nobel prize winner Chen-Ning Yang). Individuals from Hong Kong/Macau/Taiwan/Singapore/Malaysia/etc. typically do not follow Pinyin but rather their own dialects (e.g., Cantonese, Hokkien), although there appear to be increasing exceptions among younger parents. Mung Chiang would have been Meng Jiang if he were from the mainland.[/quote]
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