The new proposals aim to protect national symbols and threaten action against those obstructing the use of the standard ...

What makes this moment particularly striking is that Chinese did not originally have gendered pronouns at all. The character ...

China has expanded its country-wide Wikipedia ban to include all non-Chinese languages versions of the website. The full Wikipedia ban comes on the cusp of the Tiananmen Square protests' 30-year ...

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 ...

China has for at least two decades directed children in Tibet to state-run boarding schools at ever-younger ages, trying to gut Tibetan culture and blunt generations of opposition to Communist Party ...

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 ...

Three days after he was released from prison in December, a Tibetan village leader named Gonpo Namgyal died. As his body was being prepared for traditional Tibetan funeral rites, marks were found ...

China is rapidly expanding its "soft power" across Africa by establishing numerous Confucius Institutes, offering Mandarin language and culture. While providing scholarships, critics argue these ...

The Chinese government has now blocked Wikipedia in all languages inside the country, the BBC reports. The total block of one of the world’s most popular websites has been ongoing since April.

Looks like there’s another roadblock on China’s information superhighway. Wikipedia, the preeminent web encyclopedia, is now blocked in all languages in the country, the Wikimedia Foundation said in a ...