China is really big. There are a lot of people in china all sharing the same cultual context. One of the problems that emerges as a result is the fact that over a billion people there are sharing about one hundred surnames. That is starting to cause some difficulty in differentiating people. We can’t all have the same name after all. It would be rather inconvenient. They seem to have come up with one possible solution though – allowing parents to combine their surnames to give their children a compound surname. That seems like a decent solution in theory but only if you lose the misogyny.