Thousands of years of Chinese linguistic heritage have come down to this: a squabble over Tom and Jerry. Dubbed into regional Chinese dialects, the warring cat and mouse have been huge TV hits _ and a ...

As Mandarin becomes increasingly favored both in China and the Bay Area, Cantonese defenders are grappling with threats to ...

Reporting from 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 ...

In Standard Mandarin, a mid vowel agrees in [back] and [round] features with adjacent glides. A mid vowel preceded by a front rounded glide [ɥ], however, is only partially assimilated, resulting in a ...

BEIJING — China is launching an aggressive campaign to promote Mandarin, saying that 85% of its citizens will use the national language by 2025. The move appears to put threatened Chinese regional ...

We've had lots of fun sharing photos of Chengdu with you through this blog, but today, something for the ears. As any student of Mandarin Chinese will know, China can be a maddening place. You can ...

For decades, the Alhambra Police Department has offered Citizens Academy classes that give residents a taste of the training and situations its officers experience on a daily basis. This spring, the ...

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