Is the Chinese writing system a sufficient reason on its own to guarantee that Mandarin will not become a global language like English? That’s what someone asked me after I discussed the prima facie ...

The discovery of 5,000-year-old linguistic inscriptions predates by 1,400 years the earliest known Chinese writing and matches the age of the oldest known human writing in Mesopotamia. (via ...

While most of you responded to my earlier query about Asian handwriting recognition to say that, often, it’s even easier than Romanized character recognition, reader James Yopp explains how sometimes ...

BEIJING — Archaeologists say they have discovered some of the world's oldest known primitive writing, dating back 5,000 years, in eastern China, and some of the markings etched on broken axes resemble ...

Apple has seeded developers with a new version of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) tonight. The build (10A354) adds one particularly interesting new feature to Apple's Mac operating system: Chinese ...

Apple has quietly included handwriting recognition for Chinese (Traditional and Simplified) into the latest iPhone Firmware 2.0 beta. When you select Chinese input, you are given the option to use ...

One of the cooler iPhone applications that has appeared in the past few months is HWPen, which allows users to input characters using a finger, rather than typing on the soft keyboard. When the ...

Chronology of China -- Part I. Theories and Philosophies of Writing -- 1. The Nature of Chinese Writing -- 2. Traditions of Inquiry on Language and Writing -- 3. What Is Writing? -- Part II. The ...