Organizing songs by title

I have several hundred Chinese songs on my iPhone. I notice that all the iPhones I've seen in China are able to order Chinese songs alphabetically by pinyin. That is, a song beginning with the character 我 (pronounced wo) will be put under W with other English songs.
However, on my iPhone, all the Chinese songs are dumped into the numbers category with no logical order. It takes me a long time to find Chinese songs this way. I think that iPhones purchased in China are automatically set to organize Chinese songs alphabetically by pinyin, but I cannot find any setting on the iPhone which will let me change the way songs are organized. Does anyone know how to correct this?

Thanks for the reply, it turns out you were right about languages.
It turns out you have to change your phone Language get different orderings. If you change your iPhone language to Traditional Chinese, the songs are sorted by stroke order (一，二，三）but if you use Simplified Chinese the songs are indeed sorted alphabetically with other English songs. Of course, the entire interface is now in Chinese as well.
IMO this is a pretty inconvenient way of doing things on Apple's part, but at least it works. Guess Apple's hinting that if I want to listen to Chinese songs, I have to fully learn the language first. LOL.
Anyways, thanks for the help!

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