The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented ...

As one of the world’s oldest writing systems, Chinese characters have more than 3,000 years of history and spread to many parts of Asia. This script is made of logograms, a printed symbol ...

The same is true of script reform. Chinese rulers recognized the diversity within Chinese characters. One common tactic for establishing control over the written language was to compile “books of ...

Traditional Chinese characters used in Hong Kong retain this visual history much better than their simplified versions, which is why I prefer reading and writing them. I am quite sure many ...

How many Americans know the true teachings of the Buddha? The origin of Chinese characters? The details of the revolution that birthed the People’s Republic of China? Few, perhaps. But 22 Irv… ...

Chinese tattoos have become a raging phenomenon among tattoo enthusiasts of the western world. Chinese tattoos offer beautiful characters with a sense of the exotic and often much deeper meaning ...

Novelist Kim Jin-myung’s latest work, “Geulja Jeonjaeng (Letter Wars),” raises a provocative question — where did Chinese characters originate? After it was published in early August ...

Novelist Kim Jin-myung’s latest work, “Geulja Jeonjaeng (Letter Wars),” raises a provocative question - where did Chinese characters originate?