Seven Million People, No Village The Lv surname — 吕 in Chinese, Lǚ in pinyin, Lv typed on a keyboard that has no diacritics — is a top-forty surname: about 7.0 million bearers, 0.44 percent of the population, fortieth on 2018 figures. In Taishan it is nowhere. The county gazetteer 《台山县志》 (1998) counts villages by…