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 ...

Cantonese, a southern Chinese dialect with a long history but an uncertain future in China, is being championed around the world in some surprising ways and some unlikely places. At Palacky University ...

YESTERDAY'S post on Cantonese touched a few nerves. A blog post is a very compressed medium, and I said some things briefly that I still stand by but which deserve a bit of elaboration. My calling ...

Cantonese, the lingua franca of Hong Kong, is a language so difficult that it once reduced me to tears. I first started studying it intensively at the Chinese University of Hong Kong two years ago in ...

So what is the problem that Cantonese speakers of Guangdong have that has not been voiced so strongly by speakers of other dialects? It has been suggested that whereas many speakers of other local ...

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, ...

Cantonese kowtows to Mandarin as the people's language. Carson Hom's family has run a fortune cookie and almond cookie company in Los Angeles County for 35 years. For much of that time, the business ...

“The Guangdong provincial Government conducted an online survey and only 20 per cent of the interviewees supported this proposal. There are already dozens of CCTV channels and two or three regional ...

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 – ...