In the middle of the nineteenth century, with the Western powers encroaching further into East Asia, Japan decided to open itself to the outside world. A process of Westernization and modernization ...

Is the Chinese writing system a sufficient reason on its own to guarantee that Mandarin will not become a global language like English? That’s what someone asked me after I discussed the prima facie ...

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 ...

Cay Marchal was on his way from Germany to Japan in 2001 when his plane touched down in Taipei for a stopover, but he ended up staying in the city for two days because Typhoon Nara was keeping planes ...

An oracle bone on display at the National Museum of Chinese Writing in Anyang, Henan province. [Photo by Zuo Dongchen/For China Daily] The National Museum of Chinese Writing near the Yin Ruins of ...

NANJING, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- Accompanied by nods and sometimes laughter from the audience, a curly-haired young Italian man introduced his new book about his over six-year experiences in China in a ...

It is a rewarding year for Chinese author Yan Ge. This summer, her debut English-language short story collection "Elsewhere" was published by prestigious publishing houses in both North America and ...