After all, speakers of all Chinese “dialects” can read the same characters and communicate in writing even when they struggle to understand each other’s speech. In this sense, China is an incredibly ...

In addition, some believe that the Communist government has wiped out the various Chinese dialects. Each of these beliefs and assumptions is false. Each of them is in its own way outrageous, since ...

THE Chinese community in Malaysia has seven major subdivisions with their own dialects and customs. This means there are seven ways to pronounce the same Chinese words. The seven Chinese dialects ...

The move appears to put threatened Chinese regional dialects such as Cantonese and Hokkien under even greater pressure, along with minority languages such as Tibetan, Mongolian and Uighur.

More than just wedding emcees, they are timekeepers, guides, and custodians of age-old traditions. In Chinese culture, a dai ...