My father grew up in Guangzhou in China and my mother in Hong Kong, but they’d lived in the UK for a few years before moving to Ireland in the early 1980s, so there was no huge culture shock when they ...

Chinese is the most-spoken language in the world, but its presence in Irish education has generally been peripheral. From September 2020, however, the first cohort of Leaving Cert students are due to ...

JTA — A YouTuber, a theater consultant and an accordionist walk into a kosher Chinese restaurant. It’s not the setup to a Borscht Belt joke — it’s half of the party that grabbed a table recently at ...

China is launching an aggressive campaign to promote Mandarin, saying that 85% of its citizens will use the national language by 2025. The move appears to put threatened Chinese regional dialects such ...