An expert from the State Language Commission collects samples of the dialect in Luanping county, Hebei province. About 1 billion people in China speak Putonghua, the national, standardized form of ...

Knowing Putonghua is almost as important as knowing English when it comes to finding work and being promoted in Hong Kong, a study has found. As such, managers at most companies recently said they ...

A teacher is teaching Putonghua to students of the Miao ethnic group in a village in South China's Hainan Province in November 2017. Photo: VCG During China's Putonghua promotion week, which falls on ...

There was a saying around 1997 that you do not have to learn Putonghua as long as you do not cross the Lo Wu Bridge and enter Chinese mainland territory. Nowadays, you may hear it in the crowded ...

George Tsang, in his letter (“Time to change Hong Kong’s language policy so city can succeed”, August 5), discusses language policy in education after the handover. One issue he looked at was the ...

China on Monday launched a nationwide campaign to promote Putonghua or Mandarin Chinese. The weeklong campaign will focus on popularizing the use of Putonghua in the country's impoverished areas to ...

Hong Kong’s mother tongue is under threat. Cantonese may be centuries old but how much longer can it sustain the pressure from China to pick up Putonghua? By Arthur Tam and Anna Cummins. Additional ...

When Lau Chaak-ming was casting around for a kindergarten for his daughter, he had trouble finding one that used Cantonese. It was a strange, if not ridiculous, situation for a city made up primarily ...

Hong Kong (AsiaNews) – Hong Kong’s diocesan weekly Sunday Examiner dedicates this week’s feature to the new pastoral initiatives the diocese is implementing to welcome and support the ...

In 1935, a group of left-wing students in Shanghai warned that ongoing efforts to reform the Chinese language and make it easier for the mostly illiterate population to learn risked “setting up a ...

An expert from the State Language Commission collects samples of the dialect in Luanping county, Hebei province.[Photo by Huo Tengda for China Daily] The government's decision to raise the number of ...

Since the start of the year, a special pastoral team set up by Cardinal Chow has been active, dedicated to ministering to the thousands of Mandarin-speaking people who have arrived in the city in ...