Language learning can be a bridge to mutual understanding between nations, but it is not immune from politics. In what the Chinese Foreign Ministry has interpreted as a political move, the Harvard Beijing Academy, a Mandarin...
The Netherlands’ Groningen University has canceled plans to set up a satellite campus in...
China’s Confucius Institutes (CI)–government-funded centers for research and language...
In recent years, China’s Confucius Institutes–a program under the Ministry of...
The BBC’s John Sudworth reports on an interview with Hanban head Xu Lin. Hanban is the...
Tech in Asia’s Josh Horwitz talks to Mike Love, developer of the highly regarded Chinese...
At FT Magazine, Isabel Berwick introduces Chineasy, a visual-based learning system invented by ShaoLan Hsueh that uses simple illustrations to help people recognize and interpret Chinese characters. “In a nutshell, I take...
The Wall Street Journal reports Australia plans to grow business with Asian countries, including China and India, to a third of its economy. This plan comes amid growing anxieties over China’s increasing influence in Australia:...
Michael Churchman of Australia National University writes in China Heritage Quarterly about the Confucius Institutes and their policy of only teaching standard, simplified Mandarin Chinese to students around the world: It is...
Zhou Youguang, father of pinyin, celebrated his 106th birthday (January 13th) with two cakes, one shaped like a typewriter and the other like a copy of his latest book. Among the enormous changes he has witnessed since his...
The New York Times reports that American elementary school enrollment in Chinese has increased, in part due to the Chinese government subsidizing Chinese language instructors: Some schools are paying for Chinese classes on their...
From China Daily: A pair of prominent US senators proposed legislation that would encourage Chinese and American citizens to learn each others’ languages, in an effort to improve bilateral cultural and business ties… The legislation authorizes US$1.3 billion in federal funds over five years to provide for Chinese language instruction in US schools. The bill […]
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