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In China, Your Name Must Be on the List

[caption id="attachment_3790" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Source: Little Red Book"][/caption] Can you imagine sharing a name with 17 million other people? That's the amount of people in China with the surname Ma. Combine that with the fact that most given names (our equivalent of first names) are usually short (a common surname is Chang), and you've got an nation-wide …