Character Hero is a Chinese-style spelling bee, but in this challenge, young contestants must write Chinese characters by hand. Every stroke, every dash must be in the correct spot. After two ...

"Pinyin," a writing system that transcribes Chinese characters into Latin script, is the most widely used input method for phones, computers and other electronic gadgets. Pinyin only requires ...

"IS ROMANIZATION inevitable?", asks Victor Mair in a provocative post on the decline in Chinese-speakers' ability to write in traditional Chinese characters. If this seems like a Western-centric ...

By Deirdre Mask KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS The Language Revolution ... scholars and ordinary citizens adapted Chinese writing to the modern world is the story of how China itself became modern.

And on top of it all, Chinese characters are the oldest continuously-used system of writing in the world. So how the hell does it work on a modern computer keyboard? We checked out this Slate ...