Classical Chinese or Literary Chinese is a traditional style of writen Chinese based on the grammar and vocabulary of Zhou...
The Impression of China
More than forty years ago, when I was first admitted to the middle school,I used to feel extremely happy to...
In mainland China a simplified writing system is used，whereas in Hong Kong，Taiwan，and overseas regions the traditional script is being used.Starting...
Highly inflected languages such as the Latin language and the Russian language make scores of additions to，or changes in，the sound...
The need to establish an official national language was felt as early as the 17th century when the Qing Dynasty...
Chinese，together with Tibetan and Burmese and the many tribal languages of South andSoutheast Asia，belongs to the family of Sino-Tibetan languages.Besides...
Chinese characters are often criticized for being overly complicated.Roman letters give relatively precise information on pronunciation，but no information on meaning.In...
There are approximately 1，700 possible syllables in Mandarin.As a result，there are many homophones-syllables which sound the same but mean different...
In view of formation，written Chinese is a script of ideograms.Xu Shen（c.58一c.147），in the Eastern Han Dynasty，was a distinguished scholar who had...
Chinese characters have played a significant role in the development of the outstanding culture of the Chinese people.Chinese characters are...
Confucianism was further developed by Mencius and Xun Zi.It was in the reign of Emperor Wu during the Han Dynasty...
Confucianism is the cornerstone of traditional Chinese culture.It has dominated the feudal society and even today's China for about 2，000...
Taoist Philosophy，though not elevated to an official philosophy as Confucianism once was，still played an important role in the long history...
After experiencing a cruel ban in the short-lived Qin Dynasty，Confucianism was proclaimed the national curriculum and became a requirement for...
Great Confucian figures in this period were Confucius，Mencius and Xun Zi. ·Confucius Confucius（551-479 BC）was a great thinker of the State...
Chinese philosophy has a history of several thousand years，being said to date back to an oracular tradition in Neolithic Times.Traditionally，ancient...
Equality, unity, mutual help and common prosperity are the basic principles of the Chinese government in handling the relations between...
“I simply regard novel writing as a part of my life.The way I take up my writing is the same...
Mao Dun's Works Mao Dun's（1896-1981）works opened a new literary period.His novels，based on close observation and analysis of society，reproduce a whole...
Hu Shi（1891-1962）is a Chinese philosopher and essayist.His courtesy name is Shizhi .Born in Shanghai，he had an ancestry in Jixi ，Anhui...