To a non-Chinese speaker (like me), and especially to a Westerner (like me), Chinese is the most impenetrable family of languages on Earth. While there may be only an eighth as many syllables as in ...

Unlike alphabetic writing systems that follow a design principle of mapping graphemes (visual form) onto phonemes (minimal phonological units of speech), the Chinese logographic system maps graphic ...

I’m you from three years later. ‘Are you actually?? I have so many questions! You’re in college, right? Did we get into —’ Calm down. I’m not here to talk about that. ‘Wait, why are you here then?’ To ...

Parents and children read and select books at Wangfujing Bookstore during the Spring Festival holiday in January.a book at a Zhongshuge branch bookstore in Beijing's Xicheng district on Feb 15.[Photo ...

BEIJING, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Two years ago Htike Lwin Ko read a Chinese novel set in the age of chivalry, complete with elements of time travel, martial arts and romance and was immediately hooked. A ...