Recently the use of Chinese characters and the policies related to them have been a concern of many. The debate on traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters is an ongoing issue ...

"Individual" ..... This is not a symbol, it is a kanji. Simplified Chinese was the future form of Kanji. Both Japan and China use kanji, but they are not the same glyph. In China simplified Chinese ...

Choosing a baby's name is seldom simple. But it can expose a rift that has been tearing at the Chinese community around the world for more than half a century. Frank Mong and his wife, Sandra, asked ...

Michael Churchman of Australia National University writes in China Heritage Quarterly about the Confucius Institutes and their policy of only teaching standard, simplified Mandarin Chinese to students ...

The longer I serve as the "Japanese" role, the more I will not question the kanji I always use. Because we use kanji to breathe in "Pro" on that road. But, if you incorporate Chinese elements into ...

There’s no need for the kerfuffle over the use of simplified characters in Hong Kong – I refer to the recent articles by Alex Lo (“Harrow right to take simplified approach”, June 7) and Paul Stapleton ...

A heated debate on accepting or rejecting simplified Chinese characters has attracted public attention after CPPCC (Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference) member Pan Qinglin put forward a ...

Taiwan is stopping the use of simplified Chinese characters - the type of script used by mainland China - on official websites. Taiwan normally uses traditional characters but many businesses made the ...

Recently the use of Chinese characters and the policies related to them have been a concern of many. The debate on traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters is an ongoing issue ...

As a locally educated Chinese person, I consider the simplification of Chinese characters to be an affront to the aesthetics of the Chinese language. It is a massive dumbing-down for the sake of ...