Thinking about Chinese naming customs last week, I recalled how my husband, Erik, and I struggled to solve our own challenge: how could two non Chinese speaking people possibly give their daughter the appropriate [Chinese] name she deserved. Here’s our story. Several months before we met our daughter, we received what is called a “referral,” a […]
Naming
My Chinese Name
It turns out that everyone who moves to China must adopt a Chinese name. When the people facilitating our move informed my husband of this, he immediately called me, “You need a Chinese name. The moving company says they will select one for you, but I thought you would want to choose your own.” Of […]