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 ...

As previously noted, foreign names and nouns often suffer badly in the transition into Chinese characters, mainly because Chinese phonetics has no way of rendering a number of sounds common in English ...

Red lanterns, delicate Chinese paper cuttings and poems about Beijing mountains adorn a small corner of a Stuart classroom that used to be dominated by Spanish decorations. A dozen eighth-graders file ...

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 ...

STUART — Red lanterns, delicate Chinese paper cuttings and poems about Beijing mountains adorn a small corner of a Stuart classroom that used to be dominated by Spanish decorations. A dozen ...

KALONA, Ia. – The U.S. Department of Education invested thousands of dollars in Jean Lin Hussey so she could teach Iowa schoolchildren her native language: Mandarin Chinese. But Iowa's Board of ...