Following the successful launch of its inaugural year in 2024, the China Daily Global Impact Writing Challenge returns for ...

In modern Chinese literary studies, Professor Zhang Li, associate dean of the School of Chinese Language and Literature at ...

The discovery of 5,000-year-old linguistic inscriptions predates by 1,400 years the earliest known Chinese writing and matches the age of the oldest known human writing in Mesopotamia. (via ...

IN THE past few decades China’s rapid economic growth has enabled many of its people to amass fortunes, big and small. The country is home to nearly 400 billionaires, second only to America. But with ...

Is “Silver Tiger,” your story in this week’s issue, your first publication in English? Can you tell me about your writing and publishing history in China? That’s right. “Silver Tiger” was one of my ...

If you grew up in China in the 1950s and ’60s, as Jung Chang did, the last thing you aspired to be was a writer. “Writing was the most dangerous profession,” she told me recently. In fact, writing was ...

Sixth Tone has kicked off its first “China Writing Contest,” seeking nonfiction submissions from writers around the world. This year’s contest is based on the theme “Generations” and welcomes 1,000 to ...

BEIJING, Aug. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In the peak of summer, all things thrive and are in full bloom. Enthusiasm among the Chinese people for friendly exchanges with people from around the world ...

Welcome to the Sixth Tone China Writing Contest! Here is a brief FAQ we’ve compiled based on some of the commonly asked questions we’ve received so far. If you have a question that is not answered ...

In late 1948 and early 1949, toward the end of the Chinese civil war, Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek transported across the Taiwan Strait hundreds of thousands of valuable Chinese artifacts which ...