Is it just too hard for kids to learn Chinese in Singapore schools? This mum-of-two explains why she thinks the answer might ...

For more than 70 years, the Shoong Family Chinese Cultural Center in Oakland has been teaching Cantonese and Mandarin to Bay Area schoolkids.

Chinese language teaching is increasingly about memorising and repeating sounds and signs, without the meditative beauty that underlies the language. Pronunciation is not a relevant variable in a codi ...

The late, great sinologist Simon Leys once pointed out a peculiar paradox. China is the world’s oldest surviving civilization, and yet very little material of its past remains—far less than in Europe ...