The revered teacher Confucius wasn't named "Confucius" at all, for example; his name was Kong Fu Zi, literally "Master Kong." It happens with food, too; "chow mein," for example, is an ...

For this year is the 50th anniversary of the iconic Hong Kong comic strip Lao Fu Zi, more commonly known in English as Old Master Q. The Hong Kong character and his friends, Big Potato and Mr Chin ...