China is set to enact a landmark law requiring ethnic minorities to use Mandarin Chinese as their main language of instruction, overturning decades-old policies that date back to the era of Mao Zedong ...

Miradie Tchekpo biggest dream has come true: She has landed a job as an interpreter working for a Chinese trading company in her home country of Benin. "In middle school, I watched Chinese TV channels ...

China is preparing to introduce a major legal overhaul that could dramatically reshape language use across the country, prioritising Mandarin Chinese in education and public life while sharply ...

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 ...

When the communists took over mainland, the literacy rate in China was below 20 percent. It is now 95 percent, according to some estimates. The same rate among young people (15 to 24 years old) is now ...

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 ...

Studycat shares new insights into how families are shifting from passive video to interactive play when choosing a ...

For years, conversations about gender-neutral language have felt like a distinctly American—or at least English-speaking—debate. Pronouns like they/them have entered mainstream usage, corporate ...

Efforts are underway in parts of China to strip English-language education of some of its importance within the country's school systems, a move that has been widely applauded online. The Beijing ...

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 ...