China is set to enact a landmark law requiring ethnic minorities to use Mandarin Chinese as their main language of instruction, overturning decades-old policies that date back to the era of Mao Zedong ...

China is preparing to introduce a major legal overhaul that could dramatically reshape language use across the country, prioritising Mandarin Chinese in education and public life while sharply ...

An introductory course in modern spoken and written Chinese, stressing oral-aural facility and the integration of the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Five hours of ...

Three days after he was released from prison in December, a Tibetan village leader named Gonpo Namgyal died. As his body was being prepared for traditional Tibetan funeral rites, marks were found ...

How is the Chinese government marking international mother language day on February 21? By legalizing the erasure of mother languages. In December 2025, according to the NPC Observer, the National ...

The 17th annual National Chinese Language Conference (NCLC), held May 2-3, 2024, featured a cross-disciplinary approach to explore how AI transforms education and spotlight innovations and insights in ...

For years, conversations about gender-neutral language have felt like a distinctly American—or at least English-speaking—debate. Pronouns like they/them have entered mainstream usage, corporate ...

Studycat shares new insights into how families are shifting from passive video to interactive play when choosing a ...

With the rapid growth of China’s economy, as well as its burgeoning cultural and international influences, the Chinese language is in high demand in the United States and other Western countries.

Ms. Lin is a Chinese writer living in the United States. One morning last November, I woke up to a stirring sight: video clips of young protesters in several Chinese cities singing, shouting and ...