Editing Chinese surname (section)

=== Sources ===
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* {{citation |title=Chinese Surnames and the Genetic Differences between North and South China |last1=Du |first1=Ruofu |first2=Yuan |last2=Yida |first3=Juliana |last3=Hwang |first4=Joanna L. |last4=Mountain |first5=L. Luca |last5=Cavalli-Sforza |author-link5=Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza |series=Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph Series |number=5 |year=1992 |ref={{harvid|Du et al.|1992}} |pages=18–22 (History of Chinese surnames and sources of data for the present research) |url = http://hsblogs.stanford.edu/morrison/files/2011/02/27.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121120173231/http://hsblogs.stanford.edu/morrison/files/2011/02/27.pdf |archive-date=20 November 2012 }}
* {{citation |title= O rare John Smith |newspaper= [[The Economist]] |page=32 |date= 3 June 1995 |ref = {{harvid|''The Economist''|1995}} |quote=Only 3,100 surnames are now in use in China [...] compared with nearly 12,000 in the past. An 'evolutionary dwindling' of surnames is common to all societies. [...] [B]ut in China, [Du] says, where surnames have been in use far longer than in most other places, the paucity has become acute. }}
* {{citation |title= China's Identity Crisis: Many People, Few Names |first= Steven |last= Cook |date= 6 March 1997 |journal =[[The Christian Science Monitor]] |url = http://www.csmonitor.com/1997/0306/030697.home.home.2.html |quote= Why the lack of surnames, then? The reason, according to Du Ruofu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is that all societies experience an 'evolutionary dwindling' of family names as less-common ones die out. Because the Chinese have used surnames for thousands of years (compared to just a few centuries in many parts of Europe), this effect has become particularly significant. }}
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