How an obscure term used in anthropology leaped from the pages of academia into the Chinese meme world and then became part ...

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The Chinese hot word "tuhao" and "dama" may be included in the next edition of Oxford English dictionaries. To date, more than 120 Chinese-linked words have been written into Oxford dictionaries.

There are translations for Nokia and Motorola, but not iPad or iPhone in China Nowadays, if you eavesdrop on Chinese people's phone conversations, it is commonplace to hear English phrases popping up ...

The written Chinese language will blow your mind. Each character is made up of an intricate series of strokes, sometimes as many as 64. Combining these characters in different ways can give each one ...

ON TWITTER, a friend asked "Twenty years from now, how many Chinese words will be common parlance in English?" I replied that we've already had 35 years since Deng Xiaoping began opening China's ...

The "invasion" of English words into the Chinese language must be stopped or it will no longer be a pure language, according to the country's most senior translator. By Malcolm Moore 15 March 2010 • 7 ...