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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

At the seventh International Sinologist Conference on Translating Chinese Literature that opened on Monday in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province, Chinese writer Shi Yifeng once again met with his ...

We all know what a typewriter looks like, and how this has been translated directly into the modern day computer keyboard, or at least many of us think we do. Many cultures do not use a writing system ...

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 ...

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