A paper by Jinseok Kim, Jenna Kim, and Jinmo Kim: "Effect of Chinese characters on machine learning for Chinese author name disambiguation: A counterfactual evaluation" . Obviously the authors don't have Chinese names but I would imagine personally having names that need disambiguating might spur one's interest in this research area. (And they do mention in the paper that it's also an issue for Korean names.)
Yeah, it's interesting how the practice of only listing surnames works well in cultures where people have long and distinct surnames (and often common first names) and is just silly in cultures where surnames are short and common and most of the information content of the name is in the first name.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01655515211018...