There are translations for Nokia and Motorola, but not iPad or iPhone in China Nowadays, if you eavesdrop on Chinese people's phone conversations, it is commonplace to hear English phrases popping up ...

The Chinese word yuan refers to “beautiful women.” But the word’s recent usage, especially on social media platforms, is anything but complimentary. Over the past few weeks, social media users and ...

The Chinese hot word "tuhao" and "dama" may be included in the next edition of Oxford English dictionaries. To date, more than 120 Chinese-linked words have been written into Oxford dictionaries.

ON TWITTER, a friend asked "Twenty years from now, how many Chinese words will be common parlance in English?" I replied that we've already had 35 years since Deng Xiaoping began opening China's ...

It is an innocuous expression, but an academic has been suspended for using the Chinese word for ‘um’ because it sounded like a racial slur. Professor Greg Patton was giving a lecture about the use of ...