OK without looking them up or doing a google search. How many famous Chinese people - famous as in the bloke on the 198 bus will have heard of him/her - can you name?
It's strange that there are 1369451000 Chinese people (born there or by descent) - 20% of the worlds population - yet we can probably name more famous Belgians!!
In my game we talk to a lot of Chinese in S'pore and Hong Kong, they all select a Western first name. Franky Orr and Charlie Wing are two guys I know.
I friend of mine who works in S'pore knows a guy at Ernst & Young called Ernest Yeoung!
Oakster not 100% true re Chinese and Western first names. I worked with a real fire brand young Chinese lady called Lyn Wong , however her first name wasnt Lyn but it was as close as most could get to her real first name so she adopted it. Stunning lookin lady, 4 foot nothing spoke with a scouse acent. Her family had this huge restuarant in Liverpool. One day she says to me i need next couple days off owing to the fact that she had to attend Crown Court in Liverpool after going after a pissed up punter in her dads restaurant with a meat clever !!! case was drpped but she left through ill health 6 months later unkown to any of us she used to drink two full bottles of Vodka a day ! and her dad got her home up North and in a drying out clinic. was great fun to go out with, she was always hit on by guys where ever she went and to see that tiny lady say in that scouse acent "f**k off pal OK" will stick with me for ever.
[cite]Posted By: Oakster[/cite]The trick seems to be if you are Chinese & you want to become famous in the West, you have to have an anglicised first name!
Worked for Li Ka Shing's company in Hong Kong - yes the bloke on the 198 would struggle oakster - dont think he read your question properly.
What a horrible place to work that was. But anyway you're right about the anglicised name... about a 1000 worked in our office and when bored i would read the telephone directory to look at the christian names! We had plenty of Fanny's, about fives Eagles, but the ones that stood out was that we had one Boogie and one Disco respectively.
[cite]Posted By: Oakster[/cite]The trick seems to be if you are Chinese & you want to become famous in the West, you have to have an anglicised first name!
Worked for Li Ka Shing's company in Hong Kong - yes the bloke on the 198 would struggle oakster - dont think he read your question properly.
What a horrible place to work that was. But anyway you're right about the anglicised name... about a 1000 worked in our office and when bored i would read the telephone directory to look at the christian names! We had plenty of Fanny's, about fives Eagles, but the ones that stood out was that we had one Boogie and one Disco respectively.
Over in Singapore and HongKong for Natwest/RBS we had a Fanny Pak and Fanny Pun.
[cite]Posted By: Oakster[/cite]The trick seems to be if you are Chinese & you want to become famous in the West, you have to have an anglicised first name!
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Marco Fu
John Woo
Zhou Enlai
Ding Junhai
Marco Fu
Sun Jihai
Yao Ming
Ma Junren
Jung Chang
Sun Yatsen
Li Ka-Shing
The proverbial bloke on the 198 bus is gonna be struggling with all of these barring Mr Chan.
I might add Bert Kwok though - for fans of the Pink Panther & Harry Hill.
I bet there are more famous Belgians.
The golfer Michelle Wi
I friend of mine who works in S'pore knows a guy at Ernst & Young called Ernest Yeoung!
Stunning lookin lady, 4 foot nothing spoke with a scouse acent. Her family had this huge restuarant in Liverpool. One day she says to me i need next couple days off owing to the fact that she had to attend Crown Court in Liverpool after going after a pissed up punter in her dads restaurant with a meat clever !!! case was drpped but she left through ill health 6 months later unkown to any of us she used to drink two full bottles of Vodka a day ! and her dad got her home up North and in a drying out clinic.
was great fun to go out with, she was always hit on by guys where ever she went and to see that tiny lady say in that scouse acent "f**k off pal OK" will stick with me for ever.
The golfer Michelle Wi[/quote]
Michelle Wi is Hawaiin.
Worked for Li Ka Shing's company in Hong Kong - yes the bloke on the 198 would struggle oakster - dont think he read your question properly.
What a horrible place to work that was. But anyway you're right about the anglicised name... about a 1000 worked in our office and when bored i would read the telephone directory to look at the christian names! We had plenty of Fanny's, about fives Eagles, but the ones that stood out was that we had one Boogie and one Disco respectively.
Over in Singapore and HongKong for Natwest/RBS we had a Fanny Pak and Fanny Pun.
Ken Hom, he had a magic wok...