CHINESE writing began as individual symbols thousands of years before the characters were brought together to create a true written language. Symbols that resemble Chinese characters appear on ...

Few things in Chinese culture are more widely misunderstood outside of China than the Chinese language. The Chinese write very differently from us and indeed from all other literate societies in today ...

The traditional writing system of the Chinese-speaking parts of the world has disadvantages that would, on their own, be sufficient to guarantee that Chinese will not become a global language like ...

All societies have spoken or signed language, but not all languages have a written form. Since writing developed in different ways in different places, writing systems differ greatly around the world.

Two books on Chinese writing illustrate how tumultuous technological evolution can be. Every second of every day, someone is typing in Chinese. In a park in Hong Kong, at a desk in Taiwan, in the ...

When teacher Karen Boyce's third-grade class at Nike Elementary School in Catawissa recently studied Chinese writing, student Marissa Weerts was happy to share her knowledge. While her classmates ...

In Chinese tradition, fish, carp especially, because they are believed to swim in pairs, symbolize marital companionship, fecundity and happiness in one's element.