Write your name in Chinese

RHS 116

D.C.Ellison, Instructor

Extra Credit

This assignment has five parts: It is worth a total of ten points.

First, write your complete name in Chinese (this includes your given, middle and family name) Second, state why, in completing this assignment it was necessary for you to (a) identify your gender, (b) identify your desired essence? Think this one over for a minute or two. In the Occidental world a name has an empirical meaning. Is this true in the Oriental world? Third: how many different strokes were required to write your name? What were these strokes? Fourth: Some ten surnames account for 40% of the Chinese population today. What accounts for this? Fifth: Translate the name of Professor Shuping Wan of the Department of History, Montgomery College from English to Chinese. If you are unable to do this, explain why. (If you ask him in person you are evading the purpose of this assignment - and he'll tell me.)

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