Chinese writing is logographic, that is, every symbol either represents a word or a minimal unit of meaning. When I write the character , it not only has a sound, niu, it has a meaning, “cow.” Only a ...

Calligraphy, literally "beautiful writing," has been appreciated as an art form in many different cultures throughout the world, but the stature of calligraphy in Chinese culture is unmatched. In ...

Sample, Joe 2023. “We have received expresses from the Celestial Empire”: breaking news from China in nineteenth-century Punch . Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Vol. 45, Issue. 2, p. 165. On 29 August ...

China recently issued a notice on improving Chinese character writing in primary and secondary schools in an effort to promote the country's linguistic and cultural heritage, the Ministry of ...

China recently issued a notice on improving Chinese character writing in primary and secondary schools in an effort to ...

British literary magazine Granta has focused its latest issue on China during a time of growing geopolitical tensions. It ...

This is no different in China, where filial piety has been ingrained into people thanks to Confucian, Buddhist and Taoist ...