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 ...

It was developed under the Chinese Communist Party and first adopted in China in 1958. These days, pinyin is the international standard for transliterating Mandarin using the Roman alphabet ...

Asked about the rapid growth of Chinese electric car companies like BYD, Ford CEO Jim Farley called it "the most humbling ...

Chinese characters in their modern form remain the only regular medium for writing standard Chinese in the world today. In modern China, some of the most complex or frequently used characters have ...

Fresh off giving a keynote speech in Beijing during an event that was organized by the Chinese National Institution of Standardization (the CNIS), Andy Updegrove is now stateside with a report ...

Using Aspect in Standard Chinese. ... Pǔtōnghuà, which translates to ‘common tongue’, is the official language of the People’s Republic of China. It is a member of the Sinitic language group, commonly ...

The U.S. remains a magnet for initial public offerings of Chinese technology companies, despite rising political, trade and regulatory tensions between the world’s two largest economies.