I began studying the Analects of Confucius in 2011. While learning the Analects in Japanese, I started to think, “I want to ...

Student reads from a Chinese language textbook. (Adek Berry/Getty) China’s economic emergence in recent decades has pushed tens of thousands of American students to study Mandarin. But many who learn ...

"What is the point of studying Classical Chinese?"Many people probably thought that during their high school years.The ...

Chinese, the most commonly spoken language in the world, is challenging to master. Rather than an alphabet, Chinese has thousands of characters. On top of that, the language is tonal, so how you speak ...

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 ...

There is a belief widely held across the Western world: Chinese students are schooled through rote, passive learning – and an educational system like this can only produce docile workers who lack ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. The threat of TikTok going dark in the US appears to have compelled some Americans to start learning Mandarin as they ...

From the mid- to late 90s, I endured Saturday morning Chinese school the way many of my fellow children of immigrants did: with a healthy a mix of indifference and resentment. While my non-Chinese ...

University of Minnesota instructor Zhen Zou listens to students conversing in Mandarin Chinese on Nov. 7. A program at the U of M pairs high school students, who've been lifelong learners of Chinese, ...

Recently, the third-year Confucius Institute student at Kyrgyzstan's Osh State University performed a modern Chinese song and played the guzheng, a traditional Chinese zither, winning thunderous ...