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Quite puzzled by what is going on.

Biblatex consistently displays the second author as first initial + last name, but seems to do this for Chinese authors only. Which does not seem possible or logical.

For example, (1) returns Ding and M. Zhang (2015), while (2) returns Nevins and Anand (2003). I use the authoryear format.

Any clue of what the issue may be?

(1) 
@inbook{ding2015,
Author = {Jiayong Ding and Min Zhang},
Publisher = {Commercial Press},
Title = {VP patterns in Xiang dialects on the semantic map of ditransitives},
Url = {http://repository.ust.hk/ir/Record/1783.1-78869},
Year = {2015},
Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://repository.ust.hk/ir/Record/1783.1-78869}}

(2)
@inproceedings{nevinsanand2003,
Author = {Andrew Nevins and Pranav Anand},
Booktitle = {WCCFL 22 Proceedings},
Editor = {G. Garding and M. Tsujimura},
Pages = {370-383},
Publisher = {Cascadilla Press},
Title = {Some AGREEment Matters},
Year = {2003}}
Rethliopuks
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    I assume you have another author named "Zangh" in your .bib file. Am I correct? – gusbrs May 10 '18 at 01:47
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    turns out there is! and it turns out every single case happens to be like this. Thanks for the help ;p – Rethliopuks May 10 '18 at 01:49
  • Yes, that's biblatex's name disambiguation working, which is a nice feature, actually. Having understood what it is and why it happens, do you really want to drop the initials? – gusbrs May 10 '18 at 01:51
  • nope. Was just confused because I didn't realize it needed disambiguation... – Rethliopuks May 10 '18 at 01:53
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    Ah, ok! That's it. Biblatex uses other parts of the name, to differentiate two authors which would be indistinguishable without it. Similar things are done for name lists. That given, should I recommend closing this question as solved in the comments? – gusbrs May 10 '18 at 01:57

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