Americans are flocking to Chinese app Xiaohongshu, or RedNote, as a potential US TikTok ban looms. Some of them are learning Mandarin in an attempt to bridge the language divide on the app.

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Ever imagined what it would be like to understand your favorite Chinese dramas without subtitles? Maybe you’ve gotten hooked on the ...

STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE: When you travel in China - as our team has been doing - you meet a fair number of people who know English. Millions of Chinese citizens have been educated in the United States.

Available figures suggest enthusiasm is waning after years of rapid growth, with analysts pointing to China's economy and image problems When Colby Porter began Mandarin classes in sixth grade in ...

Montgomery High School freshman Camden Dahms doesn’t usually get to throw punches in class. But on Friday, Dahms and his first-year Mandarin classmates learned the basic moves of Wushu, a Chinese ...

The data would seem to be in: China is poised to become the world's economic leader within the next few decades. But there are those under the impression that this will mean a sea change in the ...

It’s Friday night in Ikebukuro, a Tokyo entertainment district full of cheap bars and pachinko parlors. As the office workers head to their favorite watering holes, three salarymen split from the ...

TODAY'S Wall Street Journal offers a useful update to the annual "Americans are rushing to teach their kids Mandarin" story. The reporters have found several families that have gone to unusual lengths ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ditch your French and German textbooks and start learning Mandarin, David Cameron told the UK’s school pupils ...

In just five years, the number of non-Chinese people learning Mandarin Chinese has soared to 30 million. What is fuelling this expansion, and will it change the status of English as a global language?