Between 2005 and 2011, Australian JFK Miller served as editor-in-chief of the Shanghai-based English-language entertainment magazine That’s Shanghai. Coming to China with little prior knowledge of the country, Miller’s role at the magazine required him to quickly become acquainted...
Like other media, video games in China are subject to a wide range of political and moral content...
As China’s growing population of film-goers continue to spend at the box office on hit...
At Caixin, Yu Ge comments on recent criticism in People’s Daily of the adoption of English...
While state news agency Xinhua recently marked the appearance of Chinese terms...
At China Real Time on Monday, Te-Ping Chen noted the relative lack of recent adoptions of Chinese...
The Wall Street Journal reports that English language skills, once considered essential for...
At Sinosphere, Dan Levin examines the idiosyncratic names that some Chinese English-speakers pick...
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...
Not a trace of the July 1 Hong Kong protests can be seen on mainland Chinese media, and “sensitive...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 […]
From Xinhua via Shanghai Daily: Nearly every Beijinger is going international with the forthcoming Olympics – even former stone-faced police officers are learning to greet foreigners with a friendly “hello” and a big smile. Amid the citywide pre-Olympic English-language-learning craze, nearly every police officer, from new graduates to those close to retirement, is studying foreign […]
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