What does it mean to learn the Chinese language? Schools across the globe have generally presumed a consistent, straightforward answer to this question: it would mean learning standard Mandarin, ...

China’s media regulator, the State Administration of Radio, Film and TV, has ruled that any skein dealing with the 1949 Chinese revolution as well as children’s series, historical dramas and screen ...

ANHUI, East China — These days, Xu Li doesn’t worry whenever her elderly father takes off on one of his frequent solo trips to Europe. Although the native of provincial capital Hefei speaks little ...

Cantonese-language films will no longer need to be dubbed into Mandarin before being shown across the border. By Clifford Coonan Bruce Lee 1970 - P 2013 Indeed many of the finest moments in Chinese ...

Regarding Hugo Restall’s review of “Kingdom of Characters” (Bookshelf, March 2): The Beijing dialect, known in the West as Mandarin, was voted by the Kuomintang to be the guoyu, or national dialect, ...