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Mark Chung

Peng Chau
Creator
Mark Chung (b. 1990, New Zealand) is an artist working and living in Hong Kong.
Though his given name is Mark and his maternal name Jenewein, his paternal name belongs to a non-phonetic language system, ensuring the unfortunate inconvenience of a futile romanisation process. By applying three common translinguistic systems used in close geographical, cultural, linguistic, and political proximity with the tongue Mark grew up with, his family name could be Zung1, Tsung, or Jāng. That said, a simplified version of the Standard Romanisation for Cantonese (a system used by Christian Missionaries in the 1880s) was implemented by the authority of the Hong Kong colonial government, who gave him the family name “Chung”.
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