Reporting from Beijing — Texting and typing are replacing the elaborate strokes that make up written Chinese. And when it comes time to jot down a few words, more Chinese are realizing they can’t ...

Left: Yu Dan speaks to a French official during the event about learning Chinese characters at the headquarters of UNESCO in Paris in October. Right: Yu's new book Yu Dan Interprets Life Using Chinese ...

In an age widely heralded as the Information Age, few people question the convenience the computers and mobile phones have brought to us. We are given easy access to reach every corner of the world ...

The goal of my new book Chineasy is to allow people to learn to read Chinese easily by recognizing characters through simple illustrations and animations. By learning one small set of building blocks, ...

A national political advisor advocated strengthening the digitization of Chinese characters, which she believed would help promote Chinese culture internationally. Wang Jing, a member of the 13th ...

The following is another missive from Viewpoints staff writer Arieh Smith, ’12. He’s spending his summer studying abroad with Princeton in Beijing. The more one studies Chinese, the more one realizes ...

The history of Chinese characters is also a history of technological advances, design innovations, as well as nation building and globalization. Since the 19th century, generations of Chinese printers ...

China has launched its first WeChat mini program to collect rarely used Chinese characters. The program collects characters that cannot be inputted into computers and uploads them into a character ...

AS DIPLOMATIC incidents go, it was not a big one, but for many people in Hong Kong and southern China it felt like the latest in a long line of slights. In May, Nintendo—a Japanese toy company— ...

Chinese internet users are taking issue with a recent announcement that the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) and Ministry of Education are trying to standardize online speech by cracking down ...