The ancient written Chinese language is one of the oldest known forms of writing in existence today. Modern day China worships the god of Buddha, but who did they worship prior to the birth of ...

By the end, viewers will learn that the language being reconstructed is not a single "Ancient" Chinese but a framework known as "Middle Chinese," with deep connections to "Old" Chinese. More for You ...

If foreigners learning Chinese think the modern language is difficult to grasp, they should be glad they don't have to learn classical Chinese. Ancient texts are far more challenging, and not easy ...

Like the Romance languages, the Chinese languages are mutually unintelligible (that is what makes them different languages). But, because they share a common history and a good deal of common ...

As Jing Tsu, a scholar of Chinese at Yale, observes in “Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern” (Riverhead), China had long equated writing “with authority, a ...

At the same time, it encourages growing diversity at the local level. I am a great believer that we should not just teach the Chinese language, but also, to use Ramsey’s phrasing, the languages of ...

China has launched its first intelligent tool "Xunzi," designed specifically for the processing and research of ancient books. It is a large language model of ancient books, including the "Siku ...

Scholars of Chinese philosophy, of course, zap one another over what Confucius, Mencius, and other ancient Chinese stalwarts really meant in regard to the provocative topics and vignettes they ...

If foreigners learning Chinese think the modern language is difficult to grasp, they should be glad they don't have to learn classical Chinese. Ancient texts are far more challenging, and not easy ...