Although Guangzhou authorities have denied rumors that the city will scrap Cantonese (or Guangdonghua) to promote Mandarin (or Putonghua) in the near future, the Cantonese versus Mandarin debate has ...

Laura Ng had a dual motive for taking Cantonese classes at Stanford. As a PhD student in anthropology, she was researching the history of the Inland Empire Chinatowns. She also wanted to communicate ...

FOR years, a cryptic drama played out on television sets in Hong Kong's living rooms. Tune in to channels besides that of dominant broadcaster TVB, and many Hong Kong celebrities would be speaking in ...

I am writing to express my disagreement with the policy of using Mandarin to teach Chinese (“Hong Kong education chief forced to clarify controversial comments about teaching Chinese language in ...

The Chinese or Lunar New Year is a holiday that roughly a fifth of the world celebrates and for those 1.5 billion, it’s the most important date on the calendar. But the 6 billion rest of us can get 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 ...