Chinese pronouns are largely split between female and male – prompting LGBTQ activists to invent their own gender-neutral ...

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

From Wubi to Zhineng ABC, here are the different ways Chinese people have typed their language over the years. This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about ...

The Chinese language is one of the most complex and comprehensive languages in the world. Sometimes I feel lucky to be Chinese, specifically when I see some of my foreign friends struggle to learn the ...

Comprising five chapters and 32 articles, the revised law is set to take effect on Jan 1, 2026. It aims to strengthen ...

An introduction to the fundamentals of modern standard Chinese (Mandarin), including pronunciation, Chinese characters, grammar, and conversation. Students develop all four skills (listening, speaking ...

"Resilience", or ren (韧) in Chinese, has been chosen as China's character of the year, while the homegrown AI model "DeepSeek ...