Learning simple Mandarin Chinese phrases and words is easier than it seems. Mandarin Chinese is the most common language in ...

“some of the Cantonese tones are derived from classical Chinese, which was developed over a thousand years ago.” Zhou Youguang, whose Pinyin writing system helped modernise China, dies at 111 ...

Chinese researchers seek ways to be distinguished in a world where their work is not published using their Mandarin name In academic research, identifying authorship is a unique challenge for Chinese ...

However, among all of these writing systems, Chinese characters, Hanzi, hold a special place in my heart as being the most elegant and aesthetic. Despite the practical limitations of Chinese ...

An introduction to China and Mandarin, the official Chinese language. Mandarin is taught in schools using pinyin, a romanised, phonetic system of writing Chinese. There’s a brief introduction to ...