LinkAsia
| Feb 1, 2013
Hukou, China's controversial household registration system, was originally designed to monitor the population and limit mass migration from the countryside to major cities. LinkAsia contributor Mark Dreyer reports that Chinese have taken to social...
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CCTV News
| Dec 12, 2012
While many young Chinese couples are tying the knot on 12/12/12, even more are prepping for their wedding dates on 1/4/13. What makes this seemingly random day so auspicious? CCTV News reports that the pronunciation of that date sounds like, "Love...
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CCTV News
| Dec 4, 2012
Fifteen-year-old student Zhan Haite has sparked a national debate on microblogging site Sina Weibo around access to education for Chinese who migrate to cities from rural areas. As state-run CCTV News reports, students who don't have "hukou", or h...
LinkAsia
| Nov 16, 2012
Chinese microbloggers were hard at work giving counter-spin to the Communist Party's propaganda machine during the first meeting of the 18th National Congress. Contributor David Bandurski reports from Hong Kong on how social media users overwhelme...
Euronews
| Oct 26, 2012
Even though tens of thousands of delighted Chinese fans watched Ai WeiWei in his own video version of "Gangnam Style," Chinese officials quickly yanked his performance off the Internet — and the dissident artist is steamed. A repressive gove...
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CCTV News
| Oct 11, 2012
The "Red Sorghum" author, who has come under fire from dissident writers for being too close with the government, is the first Chinese resident citizen to win the prize. When the announcement came of his Nobel win, CCTV News aired this glowing tri...
LinkAsia
| Oct 1, 2012
Has Beijing cultivated, and then lost control of, fierce patriotism? In the wake of violent anti-Japanese protests, contributor David Bandurski reports from Hong Kong on the historical and political roots of Chinese patriotism and nationalism.
LinkAsia
| Jul 20, 2012
China is embroiled in a territorial dispute with Vietnam over the Spratly Islands, a conflict that escalated this past week as 30 Chinese fishing boats headed out into the waters surrounding the islands. State broadcaster CCTV embedded a reporter ...
LinkAsia
| Jul 20, 2012
China's ZQGame developed "Defend the Diaoyu" for the iPad, a game in which the Chinese player must regain control of the disputed islands from Japan. LinkAsia host Yul Kwon speaks with Michael Zhang of ZQGame about the controversy surrounding the ...
LinkAsia
| Jul 16, 2012
China has forcefully rebutted Japanese Prime Minister Noda's stated desire to nationalize the disputed island chain known as Senkaku to the Japanese and Diaoyu to China. State broadcaster CCTV provides the Chinese perspective on this territorial s...
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...head Roseann Rife said. “The importance of distributing more human rights information in the Chinese language reflects China’s growing influence...
Chinese is a group of related language varieties, several of which are not mutually intelligible, and is variously described as a language or language family. Originally the indigenous speech of the Han majority in China, Chinese forms one of the branches of the Sino-Tibetan language family. About one-fifth of the world's population, or over one billion people, speaks some form of Chinese as their native language.
Varieties of Chinese are usually perceived by native speakers as dialects of a single Chinese language, rather than separate languages, although this identification is considered inappropriate by some linguists and sinologists. The internal diversity of Chinese has been likened to that of the Romance languages, although all varieties of Chinese are tonal and analytic. There are between 7 and 13 main regional groups of Chinese, of which the most spoken, by far, is Mandarin, followed by Wu, Yue and Min. Most of these groups are mutually unintelligible, although some, like Xiang and the Southwest Mandarin dialects, may share common terms and some degree of intelligibility.
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