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Sounds like you're overthinking. One field for "full name" and another for "how you want to be addressed" is way simpler than the "rules" you list above. And also consider that you've only listed rule for two cases (and your rules are wrong, or at best incomplete), and have left out the hundreds of other rules for other languages and cultures.

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There is no list.

Either you live in China and fill in your name in Chinese.

Or you don’t live in China and you write your name in English.

Hong Kong is in China and everyone has an English legal name and most people have a Chinese legal name. The English name may be a Romanisation of the Chinese name, a western name or a combination. Depending on which combination of names you have, your nationality and the specific situation, the Chinese or English one may take precedence e.g some government departments prefer the Chinese name but most businesses prefer the English names unless it's a Mainland Chinese business.

Yes. Doesn’t change anything. You fill in stuff for mainland. You use Chinese name. You fill in stuff for Hong Kong. It’s either in English or Chinese. But it’s slowly transitioning to Chinese only. As China eradicates all the English stuff and implements the red scarf Education in HK.

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