The coronavirus pandemic has introduced a rash of new vocabulary into everyday life across the globe, but perhaps nowhere more so than in China, where the battle for “COVID zero” has spawned an epidemic of slogans. Political...
Minority languages in China are increasingly under threat. Over the past week, the language learning app Talkmate and the online video streaming site Bilibili appeared to remove Tibetan and Uyghur languages from their platforms...
Chinese internet users have just scored a rare win against censorship. On September 3, the swear word shǎbī 傻逼, politely translated as “dumbass,” was banned from Baidu’s messaging forum Tieba. In the aughts, a mythical creature...
During HunanTV’s live Spring Festival Gala broadcast on Thursday, host Li Weijia...
China’s Confucius Institutes (CI)–government-funded centers for research and language...
As China’s growing population of film-goers continue to spend at the box office on hit...
At The New York Times, writer and free speech advocate Murong Xuecun looks at the lasting effect...
While China is often accused of stoking ethnic tensions by marginalizing minority languages, the...
The BBC’s John Sudworth reports on an interview with Hanban head Xu Lin. Hanban is the...
At the Wall Street Journal, Te-Ping Chen reports that the State Administration of Press,...
The South China Morning Post reports that, amid an ongoing drive to promote the use of...
As the OSI food safety scandal rolls on, with some McDonald’s restaurants reportedly selling...
Tech in Asia’s Josh Horwitz talks to Mike Love, developer of the highly regarded Chinese...
Reuters reports that the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP), also known as the East Turkestan Islamic...
Linguist Abduweli Ayup returned to Xinjiang after studying in the U.S. with the goal of opening...
At Caixin, Yu Ge comments on recent criticism in People’s Daily of the adoption of English...
The New Republic’s Christopher Beam explains the popularity in China of apparently...
While state news agency Xinhua recently marked the appearance of Chinese terms...
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