AS DIPLOMATIC incidents go, it was not a big one, but for many people in Hong Kong and southern China it felt like the latest in a long line of slights. In May, Nintendo—a Japanese toy company— ...

Chinese pronouns are largely split between female and male – prompting LGBTQ activists to invent their own gender-neutral pronoun. That movement just took a big step forward.

From Wubi to Zhineng ABC, here are the different ways Chinese people have typed their language over the years. This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about ...

On a bright fall morning at Stanford, Tom Mullaney is telling me what’s wrong with QWERTY keyboards. Mullaney is not a technologist, nor is he one of those Dvorak keyboard enthusiasts. He’s a ...

LONDON, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- A special event for an exhibition in London tracing the evolution of Chinese characters and their role in cultural exchange between China and the West kicked off Saturday ...

The following is another missive from Viewpoints staff writer Arieh Smith, ’12. He’s spending his summer studying abroad with Princeton in Beijing. The more one studies Chinese, the more one realizes ...

“Yi, er, san . . .” A Chinese language student counts each stroke while writing the Chinese character for “big”, 大. This seems like a simple process, but new evidence suggests that studying Chinese ...

Michael Churchman of Australia National University writes in China Heritage Quarterly about the Confucius Institutes and their policy of only teaching standard, simplified Mandarin Chinese to students ...

A poster of the exhibition "Between the Lines: The Civilizational Code in Chinese Characters." [Photo provided to China.org.cn] The exhibition "Between the Lines: The Civilizational Code in Chinese ...

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

Two growing complaints against Hollywood—that it bows to China to secure access to its audiences, and “whitewashes” Asian roles—collided last week in an interview with “Doctor Strange” writer C.