{"id":3922,"date":"2010-10-19T06:44:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T06:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2010\/10\/solo-han-the-empire-strikes-back\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:46:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:46:49","slug":"solo-han-the-empire-strikes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2010\/10\/solo-han-the-empire-strikes-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Solo Han &#8211; the Empire strikes back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A regulation will stipulate that the family names comes first before the given names when spelling using the Chinese phonetic alphabet, said Li Yuming, deputy director of the State Language Commission, according to the Beijing News on Monday.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/english.peopledaily.com.cn\/90001\/90776\/90882\/7169489.html\">People&#8217;s Daily Online<\/a>]<br \/>\nSo, Li Yuming, rather than Yuming Li.  My Chinese students have usually politely reversed the order of their names to conform to English speech community practice.  But I can see that once there&#8217;s widespread contact, and new multilingual communities, it would be a battle.<br \/>\nIt looks as though some elements in the Chinese government may be concerned about creeping English-ism, since the writer goes on to lament the report that some Shanghai universities have stopped testing science students on their Chinese language skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A regulation will stipulate that the family names comes first before the given names when spelling using the Chinese phonetic alphabet, said Li Yuming, deputy director of the State Language Commission, according to the Beijing News on Monday.&#8221; [People&#8217;s Daily Online] So, Li Yuming, rather than Yuming Li. My Chinese students have usually politely reversed &#8230; <a title=\"Solo Han &#8211; the Empire strikes back\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2010\/10\/solo-han-the-empire-strikes-back\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Solo Han &#8211; the Empire strikes back\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4156,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions\/4156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}