Suxia Chen is a language star with a twist – one of the “foreign” languages she’s learned to excel in is English. Chen is proficient in three Chinese dialects, Cantonese, Fuzhouese and Mandarin, and ...

NEW YORK — Cantonese, a Chinese dialect that has dominated the Chinatowns of North America for decades, is being rapidly swept aside by Mandarin, the national language of China and the lingua franca ...

What does it mean to learn the Chinese language? Schools across the globe have generally presumed a consistent, straightforward answer to this question: it would mean learning standard Mandarin, ...

On 15 June, local musician Gentle Bones responded in English to a Mandarin host at the Singapore Cultural Centre’s Cultural Extravaganza, leading to the publication of a Rice Media thought piece on ...

BEIJING — In Guangzhou, the city formerly known as Canton, Chinese government banners hang in primary schools with instructions to use the country’s official language, Mandarin, also known as ...

In unraveling his family history, writer William Poy Lee had no idea he’d wind up making a declaration of respectability for Toisanese across the America. Yet there he was on stage, in the hoity-toity ...

Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo, who speaks multiple Chinese dialects, attending the SG60 Neighbourhood Party on April 19. Follow our live coverage here. SINGAPORE – ...