Regarding Hugo Restall’s review of “Kingdom of Characters” (Bookshelf, March 2): The Beijing dialect, known in the West as Mandarin, was voted by the Kuomintang to be the guoyu, or national dialect, ...

Almost two years before Wong Kar-wai’s period drama “Blossoms” brought Shanghainese back into the public spotlight, 23-year-old Hu Shiyang began writing her debut novel in the same dialect. Titled ...

Phonemica, or xiangyinyuan, is an innovative project that documents China's myriad dialects and languages. Founders Kellen Parker and Steve Hansen started the open-archive, ethnographic project in ...

Recently, when Wang Lining, a linguistics professor at Beijing Language and Culture University, opened the popular artificial intelligence model Doubao, she was met with a surprise that felt more ...