America projects soft power through popular culture (think Mickey Mouse, Taylor Swift) or its biggest brands (Nike or Stanford). As it plots its rise globally, and in the Middle East, China’s own ...

Miradie Tchekpo biggest dream has come true: She has landed a job as an interpreter working for a Chinese trading company in her home country of Benin. "In middle school, I watched Chinese TV channels ...

By Diego Benning Wang for Eurasianet Anna Hakobyan, the wife of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, set social media ...

An order issued Tuesday by China’s cabinet said use of Mandarin, the country’s national language, needs to be more widely adopted, threatening the usage of other dialects in China. Language campaign: ...

An introductory course in modern spoken and written Chinese, stressing oral-aural facility and the integration of the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Five hours of ...

FILE - In this March 20, 2019, file photo, Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, meets with Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. An intensive summer ...

As economic ties deepen, thousands of students in the United States are learning Mandarin Chinese through a Chinese government program that's intended to improve its image overseas. Some critics are ...

The course was launched under a joint initiative of BIDA and the Confucius Institute of North South University.