The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented ...

The Taiwanese government hopes to spread its version of Mandarin — along with its values of freedom and democracy — as China’s threats against Taiwan become increasingly bellicose.

China has become trendy for Russians who once worshiped everything Western. Young people are learning Mandarin, and Chinese ...

In Dreaming in Chinese, her loving chronicle of learning Mandarin in China, Deborah Fallows mentions it taking two years to be able to follow conversations even decently—this is not a language ...

This reassurance carries special significance at this moment in China's history, a time when Chinese students are pouring hours into English lessons instead of classical Chinese poetry, when ...

BEIJING — China is launching an aggressive campaign to promote Mandarin, saying that 85% of its citizens will use the national language by 2025. The move appears to put threatened Chinese ...

Several thousand Tibetan students across China took to the streets to protest in 2010 after an order was passed that all elementary school lessons and textbooks should be in Mandarin Chinese by 2015.

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.

FENG: And for her, learning Mandarin Chinese is not about the U.S. versus China. It's a tool for thinking creatively and traveling far and, for Sousa, dreaming big. She hopes to work as an ...

Months after partnering with Liu Huan, Universal Music Group has continued its China expansion by finalizing a “strategic ...