Piecing Together Pinyin
The history of pinyin is one of both struggle and success. Find out how this language learning tool made it to textbooks today.
Sin Wenz: The Prequel to Pinyin
Find out what linguists proposed to make learning Chinese less difficult.
Zhou Youguang: The Father of Pinyin
Catching up with the centenarian scholar behind the creation of pinyin
The Man Who Fooled Mao’s Wife: An Interview with Translator Sidney Shapiro – Part 4
The final installment of our online series about Sidney Shapiro, the influential translator who became a Chinese revolutionary
The Man Who Fooled Mao’s Wife: An Interview with Translator Sidney Shapiro – Part 3
Read part 3 of the saga about the translator who fooled Mao’s wife
The Man Who Fooled Mao’s Wife: An Interview with Translator Sidney Shapiro – Part 2
Finding the man who translated China’s greatest novels was no easy task, but we did, and he told more than ever expected
The Man Who Fooled Mao’s Wife: An Interview with Translator Sidney Shapiro – Part 1
An inside look at our writers’ search for Sidney Shapiro, a legendary literary translator who has lived in Beijing for more than 60 years
30 Years of Heavy Metal
Metal is one of China’s most popular genres today, but as recently as the ’90s, most musicians here had never even heard of it
What is Chinese culture?
What is Chinese culture, and how can we decide whether something is “Chinese”?
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