“I CAN speak Chinese, I’m so awesome!” reads a sign on the wall of the Mingde primary school in Shufu, a town near the oasis city of Kashgar in the far western province of Xinjiang. Nearby, children’s ...

The introduction of the Mandarin Chinese language to East African school curricula signals China’s growing influence in Africa as a global superpower. China has sponsored CIs since 2004 and hundreds ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Ever imagined what it would be like to understand your favorite Chinese dramas without subtitles? Maybe you’ve gotten hooked on the ...

At first glance, this sixth-grade classroom at Newhart Middle School looks normal with its clustered desks, hand-drawn posters and teacher standing at the front of the classroom. A closer look and ...

A lawmaker in the Philippines is pushing for measures that will promote the learning of Mandarin among Filipino students to make them more attractive to employers abroad. “We already have the edge ...

With China’s growing power and influence on the global stage, efforts are burgeoning to promote teaching the official Chinese language in U.S. schools. And while those activities are getting help from ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Ivie Hunt was barely 6 last spring and had just finished kindergarten when she shocked the hostess at a Denver Asian restaurant by chatting comfortably in ...

A recent census report found Mandarin is the main non-official language spoken at home in Toronto and Vancouver, the first- and third-largest urban centers in Canada. The vast majority of the Canadian ...

China is launching an aggressive campaign to promote Mandarin saying 85% of its citizens will use the national language by 2025. The move appears to put threatened Chinese regional dialects such as ...

Rashtriya Raksha University Vice-Chancellor, Professor Bimal Patel (front, centre) presents certificates to army personnel who had completed their Chinese language course at Rashtriya Raksha ...