Chinese Name
Cohen was originally known in Chinese as Kong Jierong (simplified Chinese: 孔杰荣; traditional Chinese: 孔傑榮; pinyin: Kǒng Jiéróng), giving him the same family name as Confucius (孔子). Mainland Chinese communists rejected this name, however, along with the Confucian values it evoked. Cohen was thus renamed 柯恩 (pinyin: Kē'ēn), a humbler, phonetic translation, although he remained known as Kong Jierong in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
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