The discovery of 5,000-year-old linguistic inscriptions predates by 1,400 years the earliest known Chinese writing and matches the age of the oldest known human writing in Mesopotamia. (via ...

Zhou Youguang, known as the father of Pinyin for creating the system of Romanized Chinese writing that has become the international standard since its introduction some 60 years ago, died Saturday in ...

“Yi, er, san . . .” A Chinese language student counts each stroke while writing the Chinese character for “big”, 大. This seems like a simple process, but new evidence suggests that studying Chinese ...

The government cooperates with local education bureaus to help new immigrants adapt to using traditional Chinese characters, Minister of Education Cheng Ying-yao (鄭英耀) said on Monday. Cheng was ...

A poster of the exhibition "Between the Lines: The Civilizational Code in Chinese Characters." [Photo provided to China.org.cn] The exhibition "Between the Lines: The Civilizational Code in Chinese ...

BEIJING — Archaeologists say they have discovered some of the world's oldest known primitive writing, dating back 5,000 years, in eastern China, and some of the markings etched on broken axes resemble ...