Without Zhou Youguang, the world would still refer to ‘Beijing’ as ‘Peking,’ and to ‘Chongqing’ as ‘Chungking.’ The celebrated linguist - dubbed 'the Father of Pinyin' - spent three years developing ...

The University of Southern California removed a professor last week from his MBA-level virtual communications class after he used a Chinese expression that a group of Black students complained ...

Decades before its rediscovery in the Anglophone world, autocomplete was invented for putting Chinese characters into a computer. This is an excerpt from The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the ...

On the question raised several days ago-- Is the Internet a tool for dictators or for dissidents? -- several wags write in to say that the obvious answer is "Yes." But a reader who studies Chinese ...