Graham Sutherland / Polynomial@eniko it's also such a white western view of the world to assume that everyone has one canonical "real" name. other cultures have completely different naming conventions for people, often with contextual usage and repeated changes throughout someone's life.
you could feasibly build a university-level course just studying the modern history (1900-now) of Chinese naming conventions and their interaction with systems and bureaucracies in and out of China. and that's just one country!
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