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by SoftTalker 259 days ago
Chinese living in the west also will sometimes adopt a western name.
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Many Singaporean Chinese IDs have an English name, the dialectal Chinese name, and the Mandarin readings of the same characters, resulting in "Harry Lee Kuan Yew (Li Guangyao)".

    > will sometimes adopt a western name
Do you mean first name or family name?
A given name/first name, at least in the cases I directly know.