Here a story about a book worth protecting... The latest project of a seventy-year-old retired professor was to preserve Beijing's local language. Now he's a local icon because he has complied a ...

BEIJING - When you hear an old Beijinger say that someone "listens to the song of lalagu", it doesn't mean the guy is a fan of a famous singer named Lalagu. In fact, it's a humorous and euphemistic ...

An expert from the State Language Commission collects samples of the dialect in Luanping county, Hebei province. About 1 billion people in China speak Putonghua, the national, standardized form of ...

Liu Yida's collection of Beijing style books. [Photo provided to China Daily] A collection of Liu Yida's Beijing-style novels was promoted at a press conference held in Beijing's Ditan Park on Nov 10.

Reporting from Beijing — In Guangzhou, the city formerly known as Canton, Chinese government banners hang in primary schools with instructions to use the country’s official language, Mandarin, also ...

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, ...

Thousands of years of Chinese linguistic heritage have come down to this: a squabble over Tom and Jerry. Dubbed into regional Chinese dialects, the warring cat and mouse have been huge TV hits _ and a ...

BEIJING – For the past year, Mr Zhou Sheng, 46, has been teaching the local Changsha dialect to primary school pupils in the capital of central China’s Hunan province. He is passionate about ...