China recently issued a notice on improving Chinese character writing in primary and secondary schools in an effort to promote the country's linguistic and cultural heritage, the Ministry of Education ...

What does it mean to leave your country but keep its language? Xia Zhou (夏周) is a Chinese writer who studied multimedia design in Australia and currently lives in the US and writes in Chinese. His ...

NANJING, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- Accompanied by nods and sometimes laughter from the audience, a curly-haired young Italian man introduced his new book about his over six-year experiences in China in a ...

Nüshu literally means "women's writing" in Chinese, and just as its name implies, the writing system including about 500 frequently used characters has been seen as the world's only script designed ...

Is the Chinese writing system a sufficient reason on its own to guarantee that Mandarin will not become a global language like English? That’s what someone asked me after I discussed the prima facie ...

More than 100,000 children, or around one-fifth of pupils, in Malaysia’s Chinese primary schools are non-Chinese, and many are struggling with their studies in an environment where most subjects are ...