In this quick video, I break down the difference between two common Chinese words that both mean “again”: 再 (zài) and 又 (yòu) ...

In this video, I teach you how to say the common phrase “it depends” in Chinese using 看情况 (kàn qíng kuàng). I break down each ...

Trying to help your child improve in Chinese can sometimes test the patience of even the most composed parents. In Census 2020, more Chinese households in Singapore preferred to use English at home ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the globalization of Chinese companies. This article is more than 10 years old. Jack Ma, chairman of Chinese e-commerce ...

An old Chinese proverb sums up the three months I spent studying Mandarin in Beijing: To suffer and learn, one pays a high price, but a fool can’t learn any other way. The famously difficult Chinese ...

Life in space is fun, and the three Chinese astronauts currently in orbit have shared their first lesson on space living with students and countrymen on Earth. The Shenzhou 10 astronauts (or ...

As the 1880s dawned, the U.S. economy was mired in a deep economic recession triggered by the Panic of 1873. Unemployment was high, and wages were depressed. On the West Coast, the presence of 100,000 ...

BEIJING — Chinese astronauts on Thursday beamed back a science lesson from the country’s under-construction space station. The lecture focused on physics, aiming to illustrate how the weightless ...

In the mid-1960s, having failed to win either the presidency or the governorship of California, Richard Nixon had ample time to think about international relations, his primary policy interest. Like ...

I wish I had read Nancy Pine’s Educating Young Giants, What Kids Learn (and Don’t Learn) in China and America before I went to China in 2007! But it fits neatly with my thoughts from last week. It’s a ...