The debate over the superiority of either traditional or simplified Chinese characters has been ongoing since the latter were first introduced. There are ideological, esthetic, historical, and ...

Michael Churchman of Australia National University writes in China Heritage Quarterly about the Confucius Institutes and their policy of only teaching standard, simplified Mandarin Chinese to students ...

Expanding your business overseas means circumventing inevitable language barriers. Adding a smattering of Chinese characters when sending correspondence to China can help show your respect for the ...

China, 17th Oct 2024 - GoEast Mandarin, a renowned Chinese language learning platform, has announced a new educational focus on the evolution of Simplified Chinese characters and the significance of ...

The United Nations decided to start using simplified Chinese characters in its official documents since 2008, fueling controversy in Greater China and among Chinese people elsewhere. There are ...

Almost everyone who learns Chinese knows about the split between simplified and traditional Chinese. The Chinese mainland, Singapore, and Malaysia use the former; Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan use the ...

Taiwan, which sees itself as a guardian of traditional Chinese culture, has started cleansing government websites of the type of simplified script used in mainland China, officials said Thursday. The ...

The Ministry of Education is seeking public opinion on a draft list of simplified Chinese characters, and says it will not permit the use of traditional characters in the near future. The list has ...

China started to collect public opinions Wednesday on a modified list of simplified characters of the Chinese written language to further standardize a language used by billions around the world. The ...

Recently the use of Chinese characters and the policies related to them have been a concern of many. The debate on traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters is an ongoing issue ...