For obvious reasons of topicality, recent months have seen a number of new books on China. They include journalist Ananth Krishnan’s perceptive on-the-ground account of China’s recent ...

Linguistically, China wants ... A host of special characters represent unique syllables of Cantonese, enabling books and magazines to be printed in Cantonese rather than Mandarin, and fuelling ...

Today, approximately 200,000 US students in grades K-12 study Mandarin. The benefits are clear: understanding China is no longer ... my college-age cousin practice her characters during summer ...

Mandarin Chinese is the most common language in the world, estimated to be spoken by more than 1.2 billion people in countries like China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and Malaysia. With so many ...

Across China, K-12 schools are making students study ... U.S. education experts talk about the phenomenon, how the Chinese practice affects students, and how it can be improved.

THE STREET signs in Inner Mongolia, a region in northern China, are written in two languages. There are the blocky characters ... In practice, the Han (who often speak Mandarin) dominate and ...

Every night I spent time on a new character to work out how it is composed." Chineasy, which is aimed at all ages, teaches traditional Mandarin Chinese ... (In the book, pronunciation advice ...

Foreigners working and studying in China should first pass a Chinese-language exam similar to the English proficiency tests that overseas universities require of international students.