When the communists took over mainland, the literacy rate in China was below 20 percent. It is now 95 percent, according to some estimates. The same rate among young people (15 to 24 years old) is now ...

Contrasting approaches to language and identity highlight a widening divide in how each side conceptualizes nationhood – part ...

Pro-Beijing political veteran and former president of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council, Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai, has said that the tense relations between the mainland and Hong Kong are partly due to ...

Efforts are underway in parts of China to strip English-language education of some of its importance within the country's school systems, a move that has been widely applauded online. The Beijing ...

Hundreds of community members gathered at Rigby High School Friday evening to celebrate the school’s first-ever Chinese ...

Horry County Schools officials who recently traveled to China to learn more about the educational system there returned with an appreciation of English language training in that country’s schools, and ...

This summer, Dartmouth’s Chinese language study abroad program returned to Beijing after a five year pause, according to Asian societies, cultures and languages department chair Edward Miller. The ...

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 ...