What makes this moment particularly striking is that Chinese did not originally have gendered pronouns at all. The character ...

The new proposals aim to protect national symbols and threaten action against those obstructing the use of the standard ...

China's spoken and written language law was revised by the nation's top legislator on Saturday, reflecting the need for the ...

An introductory course in modern spoken and written Chinese, stressing oral-aural facility and the integration of the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Five hours of ...

China is rapidly expanding its "soft power" across Africa by establishing numerous Confucius Institutes, offering Mandarin language and culture. While providing scholarships, critics argue these ...

China disclosed a plan Monday to increase the number of citizens speaking Mandarin to 80 percent by 2020. The figure represents a sharp rise from the current figure, estimated by the government to be ...

Looks like there’s another roadblock on China’s information superhighway. Wikipedia, the preeminent web encyclopedia, is now blocked in all languages in the country, the Wikimedia Foundation said in a ...

Lately, there have been news reports regarding protests in Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region in the north of China, over the introduction of a “bilingual” education system in elementary and middle ...