Heartless love, depopulated villages. Flying with one wing, falling into a well—we are told this is “progress.” The above may sound like opening lines to stories about calamities or Kafkaesque ...

As a growing number of people around the world learn simplified Chinese instead of the more complicated traditional characters, young creatives in Taiwan are fighting to promote what they fear will ...

Research shows a small set of high-frequency building blocks shaped the writing system through a principle of economy Modern simplified Chinese characters form a tightly connected network from just ...

Compiled by EastSouthWestNorth (link): The United Nations decided to start using simplified Chinese characters in its official documents since 2008, fueling controversy in Greater China and among ...

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 ...

Scholars at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences will soon release a set of revised simplified Chinese characters for adoption. From Xinhua: For the first time in nearly 20 years, China will issue a ...

A national university in Kaohsiung promised it would increase the oversight of professors’ use of Chinese in course material following a social media outcry over several instances of simplified ...

Choosing a baby's name is seldom simple. But it can expose a rift that has been tearing at the Chinese community around the world for more than half a century. Frank Mong and his wife, Sandra, asked ...