Suxia Chen is a language star with a twist – one of the “foreign” languages she’s learned to excel in is English. Chen is proficient in three Chinese dialects, Cantonese, Fuzhouese and Mandarin, and ...

Reporting from Beijing — In Guangzhou, the city formerly known as Canton, Chinese government banners hang in primary schools with instructions to use the country’s official language, Mandarin, also ...

SINGAPORE — The Tok and Teo families are a model of traditional harmony, with three generations gathered under one roof, enjoying each other’s company over slices of fruit and cups of tea on a ...

GROWING UP in the Dabie mountains of western Anhui at the height of the Cultural Revolution, Yu Yan learned from a young age that many innocent acts could get her into trouble, starting with using her ...

(Reuters) - China has been promoting Mandarin as the national language for decades to boost unity in a country with thousands of dialects and minority tongues. Here are some facts about language and ...

GUANGDONG, South China — For three centuries, quiet Zurong Village at the southernmost tip of China’s mainland hasn’t had much to offer visitors, aside from tropical fruit. But that all changed when a ...

Dialects are an important part of local culture and now many kids even don’t know how to speak their dialects because the dominant use of Mandarin around them. It would be a pity if future generations ...

BEIJING — China is launching an aggressive campaign to promote Mandarin, saying that 85% of its citizens will use the national language by 2025. The move appears to put threatened Chinese regional ...

On a night in late October, Zhao Yuhe was flabbergasted to receive the Best Actress Award at a film festival in Zhanjiang, south China's Guangdong Province. Standing warily in the spotlight on stage, ...

Almost two years before Wong Kar-wai’s period drama “Blossoms” brought Shanghainese back into the public spotlight, 23-year-old Hu Shiyang began writing her debut novel in the same dialect. Titled ...