Chinese scientists told the Post that publishing under just their pinyin name - in English-language journals in which Mandarin is represented in the Latin alphabet - was challenging when it came ...

Burt: Correct! Mandarin characters don't give us the sound of a word, so the Chinese invented pinyin to help their learners. They took the letters of the Roman alphabet, the same we use for ...

In academic research, identifying authorship is a unique challenge for Chinese researchers when their names are presented solely in pinyin and might be shared by other researchers whose names are ...