Laura Ng had a dual motive for taking Cantonese classes at Stanford. As a PhD student in anthropology, she was researching the history of the Inland Empire Chinatowns. She also wanted to communicate ...

At first, Rao Yuansheng didn't even realize he was doing it. He was sitting in the bustling newsroom of Guangzhou Television, worrying aloud about the declining use of Cantonese here in the land of ...

If you took a time machine back 50 years to Vancouver and told Toishan speakers their dialect was heading for extinction, they would have laughed at you. So says Zoe Lam, a linguistics researcher and ...

Carson Hom’s family has run a thriving fortune cookie and almond cookie company in Los Angeles County for 35 years. And for much of that time, it was a business that required two languages: Cantonese, ...

I am writing to express my disagreement with the policy of using Mandarin to teach Chinese (“Hong Kong education chief forced to clarify controversial comments about teaching Chinese language in ...

It's the Year of the Fire Horse.

When Joe Wong was looking for a kindergarten in Hong Kong for his toddler son, he was shocked to find that many boasted that they taught in English and Mandarin only—a phenomenon he found odd in a ...