When President Obama welcomed Chinese President Hu Jintao to the White House on Wednesday, he was joined by a group of students from Washington, D.C.'s Yu Ying Public Charter School. It's a ...

Western businesses have been trying to “get inside” the vast Chinese market since the days of Marco Polo – it’s one of the top prizes of global commerce, and one that continues to inspire a frenzy of ...

To a non-Chinese speaker (like me), and especially to a Westerner (like me), Chinese is the most impenetrable family of languages on Earth. While there may be only an eighth as many syllables as in ...

Learning a new language is all about practice, but sometimes you don't have someone to practice with. Microsoft's new (and aptly-named) Learn Chinese app wants you to pick up the language with the ...

Mandarin's entry into public schools is the latest sign of growing ties between Saudi Arabia and China — Fayez Nureldine With a map of China on the wall behind him, 14-year-old Yasser al-Shaalan ...

Mandarin's entry into public schools is the latest sign of growing ties between Saudi Arabia and China - Copyright AFP FETHI BELAID Mandarin's entry into public ...