Beijing Olympics: No Middle Name, No Ticket
Middle name? No tickets for you: The WSJ’s China Journal blog reports:
The online application forms requested only first and last names. But when foreigners showed up to claim their tickets, using passports for identification, bank staff refused to hand over tickets to people whose passports also included a middle name. (It’s a non-issue for most Chinese, who use family names and given names but not separate “middle” names.)
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June 17th, 2008 at 10:26 am
My middle name is “fuckthechinese” - does that count?