I know you’re making a joke, but people getting chinese name wrong always tick me off. Her name is Wu Sau Lan, Wu is the surname, and Sau Lan is her given name, and Chinese put their surname first, given name after. Asian is never given the respect they deserved from the west when their name is pronounced in a wrong order.
The order thing is very debatable tbh, I generally agree that going in origin culture order is better (easier to keep consistent imo), but there are at least a lot of japanese artists that swap the name order when romanized. (And I don’t think I’d care if someone swapped my name order when speaking chinese).
Missing the “Sau” (no idea if Sau Lan is one name romanized as two words or two names) feels like a product of ignorance and pretty disrespectful though, yea.
That be L’Huillier, Lan Wu, Ladyzhenskaya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sau_Lan_Wu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_L'Huillier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Ladyzhenskaya
but my eyes might be misleading me
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_physics
I know you’re making a joke, but people getting chinese name wrong always tick me off. Her name is Wu Sau Lan, Wu is the surname, and Sau Lan is her given name, and Chinese put their surname first, given name after. Asian is never given the respect they deserved from the west when their name is pronounced in a wrong order.
The order thing is very debatable tbh, I generally agree that going in origin culture order is better (easier to keep consistent imo), but there are at least a lot of japanese artists that swap the name order when romanized. (And I don’t think I’d care if someone swapped my name order when speaking chinese).
Missing the “Sau” (no idea if Sau Lan is one name romanized as two words or two names) feels like a product of ignorance and pretty disrespectful though, yea.
Thanks for explaining so that be Janna Levin then, and she’s not on Women in physics list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janna_Levin