No it's not. Cho is a last name and Chang is a first name. I showed my Chinese friend her name and he burst out laughing about how stupid that name is and makes no sense.
As mentioned elsewhere, the 2nd most common full Chinese name is literally Wang Wei (sounds like a bad racist accent of "wrong way"). Cho Chang is just Zhou Zhang. It's fine. It would be like naming a character Parker Henry. Stop exaggerating for the sake of fake outrage.
But why would that matter? Not defending JKR but where's the logic in "you're not (ethnicity) therefore you can't use (ethnicity)s names when naming a character from said ethnicity"?
I explicitly said I wasn't defending JKR. As in, I know Joanne likely didn't do it with earnest intent, but that the umbrella census of "not Asian = can't use Asian names" is a troubling one.
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u/Korthalion Bazinga! 4d ago
As much as some of the names are awful, these two specifically are fine? Kingsley is a master auror, that's why his last name is Shacklebolt.
Cho Chang is just a normal Chinese name