In China, the names of things are often either ornately poetic or jarringly direct. A new, wildly popular app among young ...

MACHADO MEETING: Trump met with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who presented him with the Nobel Peace ...

Down at Nuuk’s small harbor, Gerth Josefsen spoke to AP as he attached small fish as bait to his lines. He said, “I don’t see ...

As this article goes to press, security officials in Iran are carefully weighing their options on how to dole out violence to ...

In this short video I quiz you on some of the most commonly mispronounced Chinese words in English. I hold up cards like yin ...

Amonjon Bobononov wins the second prize at a Chinese language competition for overseas students at Shanghai Jiao Tong ...

As 2025 draws to a close, CDT editors are compiling a series of the most notable content (Chinese) from across the Chinese internet over the past year. Topics include this year’s most outstanding ...

Among the highlights is a batch of digitized books donated by the Harvard-Yenching Library to the National Library of China ...

They’re at it again. China and Japan are frenemies, trading partners and uneasy neighbors with a tortured and bloody history ...

In this quick Mandarin lesson, I break down how the sound yi can mean very different things in Chinese. In part 2 of my ...

Images of a cargo ship in Shanghai carrying containerised vertical launchers, sensors and self-defence systems have spread online and prompted discussion for apparently showing China’s capacity to ...