Chinese characters, also known as Hanzi (漢字), are one of the earliest forms of written language in the world. Hanzi Chinese character inscriptions have been discovered in turtle shells dating back to the Shang dyn… See more

China is a huge country with a population to match. More than 1.4 billion people live there, with many millions living worldwide as expats. Although English has been the dominant global language for more than a century, wh… See more

In the 16th century, Portuguese explorers were among the first Europeans to visit China. They called the Ming officials they met ‘mandarim,’ developed from Sanskrit “mantrin” meaning counselor. The noun was first us… See more

You may often hear these two words interchangeably. However, Chinese is a language, while Mandarin is one of the dialects of Chinese alongside Shanghainese, Cantonese, the Beijing dialect, an… See more