The goal of my new book Chineasy is to allow people to learn to read Chinese easily by recognizing characters through simple illustrations and animations. By learning one small set of building blocks, ...

Some Chinese language instructors and students are unconvinced about a significant change in how the University will teach Chinese courses next semester. Just before the Thanksgiving break on Nov. 15, ...

FEW people live to 111. Fewer still leave as big a mark on linguistic lives as Zhou Youguang, who died on January 14th. Mr Zhou was the chief architect of pinyin, the system that the Chinese use to ...

A one-hour language class on the Dongba script, one of the pictographic writing systems still in use today, was held online on Tuesday as part of a series of events to mark the United Nations' annual ...

The Mandarin Chinese Leaving Certificate exam will take place next Monday. It's the second time that students in Ireland will sit this exam, which was first introduced last year. However, the ...

ZHENGZHOU, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- As a series of events being held to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the discovery of oracle bone inscriptions this month, the spotlight has been brought to the ...

This exhibition explores the evolution of Chinese characters from ancient times to the present. Chinese script is one of the oldest written languages in the world and the only ancient language still ...

Key issue There are tens of thousands of Chinese characters, which creates a challenge for technologies developed based on Western alphabets. (Courtesy: iStock/alexsi) Chinese characters, in use by ...

For Lunar New Year, Zhang and Richmond student Aiden Luo will be writing Chinese calligraphy banners, also called "fai chun," on Friday, Feb. 13, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Feb. 14 to 16 from 11 a.m.

Leading film producers highlighted the challenges of developing good scripts in China and abroad at a panel during the Shanghai International Film Festival on Sunday. Wanda Media GM Jiang Wei (aka ...