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Anglicized Names in China?

This is perhaps of more sociological/cultural interest than political, but my cousin, a writer in Shanghai, recently wrote an interesting article in Slate inspired by the Betty Brown incident on the growing use of Anglicized names in China among the Chinese.  I knew it was a popular practice, but I didn't realize it had become routine among Ch