Artigo Revisado por pares

How to Distinguish and Catalog Chinese Personal Names

1994; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 19; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1300/j104v19n01_04

ISSN

1544-4554

Autores

Qianli Hu,

Tópico(s)

Library Science and Information Systems

Resumo

This paper provides the easiest methods to distinguish and catalog Chinese personal names for American librarians, especially to those who know nothing about Chinese personal names. It briefly introduces how Chinese names are formed. It examines different formats of Chinese personal names in the different countries and areas. Appendix 1 and 2 present the list of popular Chinese last names in Chinese, Pinyin, Wade-Giles, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore formats. It is sorted alphabetically for Pinyin. Appendix 3 provides the list of Hanyu Pinyin with Zhuyin Zimu, which may help people from Taiwan or other areas to learn Hanyu Pinyin. The paper also makes some suggestions and comments on Chinese personal names for AACR-2.

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