Recent media pieces have drawn attention to the growing popularity of Mandarin and the use of language in promoting socio-economic ties between China and other countries, especially in the Global South. One primary example is in...
The Douban comment was not inflammatory. In fact, it didn’t even betray an overt opinion. But for censors, it was too much. “A note for posterity: this will be Inner Mongolia’s last Mongolian-language gaokao,” it read. Censors...
Amid rising concerns of curtailed academic freedoms, U.S. universities are increasingly closing...
Global Times reports that 2,939 Uyghur-speaking teachers from Xinjiang will be sent to schools...
At a meeting in Kashgar, Xinjiang Party chief Zhang Chunxian announced imminent regional campaigns...
While China is often accused of stoking ethnic tensions by marginalizing minority languages, the...
The South China Morning Post reports that, amid an ongoing drive to promote the use of...
Global Times reports instructions for TV and radio hosts to use more “proper...
PRI’s The World reports on the growth of Mandarin as a common language in China, as...
Joy Yang, a mainland Chinese who now works in Hong Kong, shares her observations of the rising hostility between local residents and mainlanders. From South China Morning Post: […I] realise that having a happy life in Hong...
Up to 40% of China’s minority languages may be at risk of extinction. Phonemica, a project aiming to document China’s threatened languages and dialects through stories told by native speakers, is currently raising...
While Shanghai strives to be an international city, locals are worried about the preservation of its cultural identity. After the 1990s, when Shanghai increased its efforts to become an international metropolis, the use of...
Romain Dallemand, schools superintendent for Georgia’s Bibb County, is pushing a mandatory Mandarin education for every student in local public schools, but not all local residents share his enthusiasm. From Adam Ragusea...
Not a trace of the July 1 Hong Kong protests can be seen on mainland Chinese media, and “sensitive...
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...
The New York Times reports on ongoing protests in Qinghai by Tibetan students angered by a plan to change the primary language of instruction to Mandarin Chinese: Thousands of Tibetan students in western China have protested...
From AP: Tibetan students in western China marched in protest of unconfirmed plans to use the Chinese language exclusively in classes, teachers said Wednesday, an unusually bold challenge to authorities that reflects a deep...
The Los Angeles Times reports on the current tensions over Mandarin vs. Cantonese use in Guangzhou: For years Cantonese speakers in southern China have complained that local culture is being eroded under orders from Beijing,...
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