How an obscure term used in anthropology leaped from the pages of academia into the Chinese meme world and then became part ...

The Chinese hot word "tuhao" and "dama" may be included in the next edition of Oxford English dictionaries. To date, more than 120 Chinese-linked words have been written into Oxford dictionaries.

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The written Chinese language will blow your mind. Each character is made up of an intricate series of strokes, sometimes as many as 64. Combining these characters in different ways can give each one ...

Analysis: when you translate directly from the Chinese into English, Ireland can mean 'love you Orchid' Ireland, the name of the country, is translated into Chinese as 爱尔兰. The general principle of ...

ON TWITTER, a friend asked "Twenty years from now, how many Chinese words will be common parlance in English?" I replied that we've already had 35 years since Deng Xiaoping began opening China's ...

A lucky number is a number which seems favourable to a person. The Chinese put their trust in them more than anyone else in the world. The number is chosen not only in accordance to numerology but ...