China recently issued a notice on improving Chinese character writing in primary and secondary schools in an effort to promote the country's linguistic and cultural heritage, the Ministry of Education ...

Chinese New Year, also called the Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival, began on January 25 and it runs through February 11. It is one of the most important holidays in China, and it is traditionally ...

Most of the world’s languages are written alphabetically; in an alphabetic writing system the basic components represent sounds only without any reference to meaning. For example, the letter “b” in ...

This research was conducted with Simon Jerome Han as lead author. Piers Kelly receives funding from an ARC DECRA Fellowship. Charles Kemp's work on this project was supported by an ARC Future ...

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 ...

There is something of a celebration going on over in China. For the country has now worked out how to make a ballpoint pen. No, really--this is being touted as a victory. The point (sorry) being that ...