S.F. Opera's ‘The Monkey King' brings Chinese myth and modern artistry to American opera

Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang's world premiere transforms the Chinese legend of the Monkey King into a vibrant new work for ...
EurekAlert!

In bilingual readers, the visual cortex processes Latin and Chinese characters differently

Like musicians who can play several instruments and read different types of musical notation, people who regularly read in two languages have developed a remarkable ability to navigate from one ...
The Conversation

Most assume writing systems get simpler. But 3,600 years of Chinese writing show it’s getting increasingly complex

This research was conducted with Simon Jerome Han as lead author. Piers Kelly receives funding from an ARC DECRA Fellowship. Charles Kemp's work on this project was supported by an ARC Future ...
The Atlantic

Some Traits in the Chinese Character

THERE is a theory among Occidentals that the Chinaman is inscrutable, full of secret thoughts, and impossible for us to understand. It may be that a greater experience of China would have brought me ...