With Xu Bing’s Writing Between Heaven and Earth at FIU’s Frost Art Museum, a trio of solo exhibitions featuring contemporary Chinese art giants concludes its 10-month run in a display of ...

The Chinese language is widely regarded as one of the most difficult languages to learn. There are more than 80,000 Chinese characters in existence, although a non-native speaker can get by with ...

The defining aspect of Chinese characters is their pictographic origin. Every one of the many thousands of characters can be broken apart, ...

“Lucky” is a common word used in Chinese restaurant names in the U.S., likely coming into prominence in the early 20th century, as restaurant owners tried to grow beyond their all-Chinese ...

Chinese seems to be the only one (not counting Greek and Sanskrit, of course). "Why can it last for such a long time and why can 1.3 billion people learn it and the rest of the world can't? I don ...

Making Chinese easier by dissecting its pictographic roots By Chris Davis in New York ( China Daily Latin America ) Updated: 2014-03-31 05:58:54 ...

When a huge mudslide swamped a Chinese town in August, killing at least 1,500 people, word first reached the world thanks to a digital camera-wielding, 19-year-old micro-blogger who idolises Lady ...

In his opinion, supported by Chinese oracle bone inscriptions, pictographic characters exemplify the stability that sets Chinese society apart more than alphabetic counterparts.

BEIJING – A survey of Chinese Web surfers found U.S.-based search giant Google in an unexpectedly strong position to challenge domestic rival Baidu.com, according to results released Wednesday ...