Few things in Chinese culture are more widely misunderstood outside of China than the Chinese language. The Chinese write very differently from us and indeed from all other literate societies in today ...
A student takes part in a calligraphy competition in Jiashan county, Zhejiang province, in August. Ten of the 50 participants will go to Jiaxing for a follow-up competition. Hu Lingxiang / for China ...
In this video I clear up the misunderstanding from my last post about learning Chinese by writing characters. I explain why I never meant to say you should stop writing, and share stories from my stud ...
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 ...
Two hit TV shows test ability to write Chinese characters Smartphones%2C computers have left many Chinese forgetting how to write common words Chinese tripped up by characters for sneeze%2C chin%2C ...
Local calligrapher Xu Xiaodong writes Chinese character "biang" on a piece of paper of 100 square meters during a Writing "Biang" event held in Xi'an, capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi province, ...
Malta held the third Chinese character writing competition for primary and secondary school students on Saturday to mark the upcoming United Nations Chinese Language Day, which falls on April 20.