Almost two years before Wong Kar-wai’s period drama “Blossoms” brought Shanghainese back into the public spotlight, 23-year-old Hu Shiyang began writing her debut novel in the same dialect. Titled ...

BEIJING — China is launching an aggressive campaign to promote Mandarin, saying that 85% of its citizens will use the national language by 2025. The move appears to put threatened Chinese regional ...

Regarding Hugo Restall’s review of “Kingdom of Characters” (Bookshelf, March 2): The Beijing dialect, known in the West as Mandarin, was voted by the Kuomintang to be the guoyu, or national dialect, ...

BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - China is hoping to make big money from supporting a once marginalized and repressed regional language which is widely spoken in affluent Taiwan and many Chinese communities ...

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THERE ARE several reasons why “Aiqing Shenhua”, a new film released on Christmas Eve in Chinese cinemas, has surprised movie buffs. One is that the movie, whose English title is “B for Busy”, is a ...

Locals expect Mandarin when foreigners try speaking Chinese. Instead, these white guys start speaking a rare regional dialect. The reaction is instant confusion followed by stunned laughter. It’s not ...

My Sweet Home has achieved phenomenal success by moving beyond the trashy tropes of China's booming micro drama industry The low-budget, Sichuan-dialect micro drama My Sweet Home has become an ...