Two hit TV shows test ability to write Chinese characters Smartphones%2C computers have left many Chinese forgetting how to write common words Chinese tripped up by characters for sneeze%2C chin%2C ...

In China, it takes blood, sweat and months of studying dictionaries to become a Character Hero. Millions tune in every week to watch teenagers compete for the title. Character Hero is a Chinese-style ...

Participants show Chinese character "biang" written by themselves during a Writing "Biang" event held in Xi'an, capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi province, April 13, 2014. Nearly 2,000 people took ...

The difficulty of writing Chinese characters is not exclusive to foreigners. A majority of Chinese speakers today find it hard to write their mother tongue, despite having pride in being the modern ...

As a young boy in Taiwan, Jerry Yang was forced to study calligraphy — writing Chinese characters with a brush. The practice is thought to mold character as well as to reflect it, but Yang found it a ...

A campaign is afoot in Chinese schools to improve children's literacy, as educators have warned that young people are increasingly having problems writing and reading Chinese due to their extensive ...

Few things in Chinese culture are more widely misunderstood outside of China than the Chinese language. The Chinese write very differently from us and indeed from all other literate societies in today ...