A native of Dongbei (Northeast China), Fang Yanhong said that while she is concerned about the dialect of her hometown, "the Beijing dialect is dying faster." Fang, a modern Chinese lecturer at ...

In addition to targeting overseas universities and the Chinese diaspora as part of its influence operations, Beijing is attempting to wield greater control over the Chinese-language media in Asia and ...

As soon as the curtain came down on the Athens Games, the world’s focus shifted east where China now faces the challenge of hosting the 2008 Olympics, in the ancient capital of Beijing. The road sign ...

Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU) is the only university of its kind in China with the primary task of teaching Chinese language and culture to foreign students; it also undertakes the ...