Recently the use of Chinese characters and the policies related to them have been a concern of many. The debate on traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters is an ongoing issue ...

People who have traveled to China should have seen that simplified Chinese characters that are not used in Japan are being used. These were enacted in the 1960's"Simplified characters"Although it is a ...

"Individual" ..... This is not a symbol, it is a kanji. Simplified Chinese was the future form of Kanji. Both Japan and China use kanji, but they are not the same glyph. In China simplified Chinese ...

Choosing a baby's name is seldom simple. But it can expose a rift that has been tearing at the Chinese community around the world for more than half a century. Frank Mong and his wife, Sandra, asked ...

There’s no need for the kerfuffle over the use of simplified characters in Hong Kong – I refer to the recent articles by Alex Lo (“Harrow right to take simplified approach”, June 7) and Paul Stapleton ...

China started to collect public opinions Wednesday on a modified list of simplified characters of the Chinese written language to further standardize a language used by billions around the world. The ...

Overseas Chinese Affairs Council (OCAC) Minister Wu Ying-yih (吳英毅) came under fire from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) again yesterday over the council’s promotion of simplified Chinese ...

As a locally educated Chinese person, I consider the simplification of Chinese characters to be an affront to the aesthetics of the Chinese language. It is a massive dumbing-down for the sake of ...