An order issued Tuesday by China’s cabinet said use of Mandarin, the country’s national language, needs to be more widely adopted, threatening the usage of other dialects in China. Language campaign: ...

Anna Hakobyan, the wife of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, set social media aflame in Armenia earlier in January, posting videos of her speaking Chinese that drew over 2 million views in two days. The ...

An introductory course in modern spoken and written Chinese, stressing oral-aural facility and the integration of the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Five hours of ...

When the communists took over mainland, the literacy rate in China was below 20 percent. It is now 95 percent, according to some estimates. The same rate among young people (15 to 24 years old) is now ...

As economic ties deepen, thousands of students in the United States are learning Mandarin Chinese through a Chinese government program that's intended to improve its image overseas. Some critics are ...

For a country so thoroughly associated with its national language, referred to in the West as Mandarin, China is remarkably rich in linguistic diversity. Unfortunately, the country's rapid development ...

This summer, Dartmouth’s Chinese language study abroad program returned to Beijing after a five year pause, according to Asian societies, cultures and languages department chair Edward Miller. The ...

Pro-Beijing political veteran and former president of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council, Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai, has said that the tense relations between the mainland and Hong Kong are partly due to ...

ZANZIBAR: ZANZIBAR’s long-standing friendship with China continues to deepen, with education—particularly Chinese language ...