CDT Bookshelf: JFK Miller on “Trickle-down Censorship”
Between 2005 and 2011, Australian JFK Miller served as editor-in-chief of the Shanghai-based...
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Translation: Game Developers Lament Censors’ Demands
Like other media, video games in China are subject to a wide range of political and moral content...
China Betting Billions on English-Language Films
As China’s growing population of film-goers continue to spend at the box office on hit...
What to Make of State Media’s War on Acronyms? LOL
At Caixin, Yu Ge comments on recent criticism in People’s Daily of the adoption of English...
Call To Ban Foreign Words Met With Scorn
While state news agency Xinhua recently marked the appearance of Chinese terms...
Which Chinese Words Should English Speakers Adopt?
At China Real Time on Monday, Te-Ping Chen noted the relative lack of recent adoptions of Chinese...
Has English Lost its Luster in China?
The Wall Street Journal reports that English language skills, once considered essential for...
Their Names Are Legion, Schumy, Milk and Dollar
At Sinosphere, Dan Levin examines the idiosyncratic names that some Chinese English-speakers pick...
Scholars Fight Back Against Roman Invasion
More than 100 scholars have protested the inclusion of 239 English words and abbreviations including NBA and PM2.5 in the Contemporary Chinese Dictionary. From Global Times: In the letter, experts point out that including such...
Hu Xijin Speaks Chinglish
Not a trace of the July 1 Hong Kong protests can be seen on mainland Chinese media, and “sensitive...
Foreign Words to be Standardized
China Daily reports on new regulations against the mixing of Chinese and foreign languages in media reports: Under the regulation, abbreviations such as GDP (gross domestic product), CEO (chief executive officer) and CPI...
Verna Yu: Cantonese, Please
An op-ed in the New York Times looks at the decline of Cantonese in Hong Kong: More and more, ambitious parents in Hong Kong are giving their children a head-start in English by putting them into English-speaking play groups,...
Shanghai Is Trying to Untangle the Mangled English of Chinglish
Shanghai is the latest Chinese city to try to eradicate bad English signage in honor of the World Expo. From the New York Times: Fortified by an army of 600 volunteers and a politburo of adroit English speakers, the commission...
Language Schools and Carpetbaggers
Danwei reports on the sudden closure of four English language schools in China, which have left in their wake stranded students, unpaid staff, and bewildered joint venture partners: In almost every case the founders and owners...
More English Needed as China Steps Up Peacekeeping
The People’s Liberation Army has been more active in peacekeeping missions around the world, and is now finding a need for more English training for their troops to communicate more effectively with U.N. personnel, Reuters...
This Is Why Hong Kong English Levels Are Declining
Canadian journalist Joyce Lau writes in her blog about some observations about teaching English in Hong Kong, wherein her brother was denied a teaching post, even though he was a native speaker of English: A potential employer...
Learning to Speak Olympics
In the New York Times Book Review, Mike Meyer writes about his experiences teaching English in a local Beijing elementary school in the year of the Olympics: I live just south of Tiananmen Square, on one of the city’s hutong, or...
Video News: English Fever Hits China – Reuters
Reuters reports on an English-language-learning craze among residents in Beijing, Reuters reports. The classes are all part of Beijing’s effort to get its population to speak English to welcome the millions of foreigners expected to flood to the city in this Olympic year. Worried that its citizens’ notoriously poor command of the language will embarrass […]
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