Some Chinese language instructors and students are unconvinced about a significant change in how the University will teach Chinese courses next semester. Just before the Thanksgiving break on Nov. 15, ...

Choosing a baby's name is seldom simple. But it can expose a rift that has been tearing at the Chinese community around the world for more than half a century. Frank Mong and his wife, Sandra, asked ...

The government cooperates with local education bureaus to help new immigrants adapt to using traditional Chinese characters, Minister of Education Cheng Ying-yao (鄭英耀) said on Monday. Cheng was ...

Despite the pervasive adoption of simplified Chinese characters in Chinese mainland, Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou said that traditional Chinese characters are essential to and represent the spirit of ...

People inside China already know about this, and people outside may not care. But because there are points of general intellectual interest involved, a word about discussions within China about ...

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 ...

The goal of my new book Chineasy is to allow people to learn to read Chinese easily by recognizing characters through simple illustrations and animations. By learning one small set of building blocks, ...