If the only way you will call me my name (that is literally on my passport) is if it is the very first word of my given name, showing you somehow still cannot comprehend a naming system that differs from the English first, middle and last name traditionвЂ“ you are doing a very bad job of being inclusive. Especially since spoken Chinese is homophonous, shortening someoneвЂ™s name to one character (most given names contain two characters) would remove its function as a name.ДЇrom personal experience, if your English name is a вЂmiddleвЂ™ name and your romanised Chinese name is not hyphenated or joined, you might as well resign yourself to being called a nonsensical bastardisation of your given name at least half the time you are in England. Chinese given names are made of characters that function as morphemes, or indivisible units of language. By that account, my first name would be Lee. If weвЂ™re going strictly by Chinese names, the surname comes first. Let us first talk about given and family names. What annoys me more as an Asian person is the refusal to understand that someone can have two names that are placed in equal standing, and that first names are not equivalent to given names, nor is it what we are meant to be known as. When someone (often white) says вЂstop making it more convenient for English speakersвЂ™, and вЂwe can handle learning non-English namesвЂ™вЂ“ but have you considered that this is not about you? Respecting our identities is never as simple as being able to pronounce вЂXiaвЂ™ or вЂNgвЂ™ the way you can pronounce вЂDostoyevskyвЂ™ or вЂDaenerysвЂ™вЂ“ that is hardly what is at issue here. Respecting our identities is never as simple as being able to pronounce вЂXiaвЂ™ or вЂNgвЂ™ the way you can pronounce вЂDostoyevskyвЂ™ or вЂDaenerysвЂ™ Rest assured I am doing this for meвЂ“ as someone who has been misnamed enough times, I might as well send this to them instead of arguing my case every time it happens. I cannot speak for the entire Asian diaspora (especially those who live in non-English speaking non-Asian countries), but I feel the need to take up the mantle and explain some things about Chinese names that your acquaintances might not have the patience for. Even with their character arcs complete, Katy continued to use her English name and Shang-Chi answered to his Chinese name as well as his anglicised moniker Shaun. Note that Wenwu asks for KatyвЂ™s Chinese name, not her вЂrealвЂ™ name. I braced myself for an outright rejection of English names and was relieved that while it was brought up two separate times in the film, they were moments that do not categorically suggest that using an English name is somehow a denial of your true self. ДЄs someone of Asian descent, this topic rarely leaves my mind. The film, recognising its somewhat trailblazing status, sought to include as many references to Asian life as it couldвЂ“ congee for breakfast, late-night karaoke, and the ever-relevant issue of anglicised names. MarvelвЂ™s newest blockbuster Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings provided long-overdue representation of the Asian diaspora in the comic book superhero genre.

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