India had earlier this month outrightly rejected as "senseless" China renaming some places in Arunachal Pradesh, and asserted that assigning "invented" names does not alter the reality that the state "is, has been, and will always be" an integral part of India. Beijing had recently announced Chinese names for 30 more places in Arunachal Pradesh, which the neighbouring country claims as southern part of Tibet.
San Francisco will begin making it more difficult for candidates to use self-submitted Chinese names if they can’t prove they were born with the name written, or if the name is widely known and used by the public. Since 1999, San Francisco — whose Chinese population is about 21.4 percent of its population as a…
In San Francisco, the tradition of political candidates adopting Chinese names for ballots is facing stricter regulations. Adhering to state law: Following an inquiry by Supervisor Connie Chan, the Department of Elections will adhere to a 2019 state law, which allows self-submitted Chinese names only if political candidates can prove they were born with them or have been using them for at least two years. How transliteration works: One example cited by The Standard is mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie, who has adopted the Chinese name 羅瑞德, which means "auspicious" and "virtue."
MIT Lecturer Min-Min Liang has won the 2023 MAFLT LCTL Innovation Award in the Classroom Innovation category for her work making learning Chinese characters meaningful and relevant to students’ life experiences.