Paul Clapham wrote:I don't even understand what it means to "convert a Chinese name to an English name". I have known quite a few Chinese people who all had English names, and I'm pretty sure that there wasn't an algorithm to convert their Chinese names to the English names they chose to be known by.
Even if it's simple transliteration, there's more than one system (Wade-Giles and Pinyin, to name but two). Personally, I hate all those 'Q's and 'Zh's you get with the official one.
Winston