This is yet another aspect of China and Chinese society that is easy to see as a monolith, but doing so would allow this number to obscure the many complexities and subtleties of the real story. In ...

While novels in regional dialects aren’t a new phenomenon in China, they have surged in popularity among young aspiring writers in recent years, particularly amid increased exposure through social ...

There are 56 officially recognized ethnic groups in China and more than 100 of the country's dialect languages are in danger of dying out, according to the United Nations. "The government has ...

Our research of dialects and peer-to-peer lending in China found that this kind of linguistic discrimination can also influence someone’s access to finance. Specifically, that accent bias ...

For Teochew Poit Ip Huay Kuan’s president Chan Kian Kuan, dialects still have a utilitarian value for doing business in parts of China. But an even bigger value lies in the cultural heritage ...

CHINA, Kagoshima Prefecture--The dominance of standard Japanese in colloquial speech across the archipelago has obvious advantages. But it comes at the risk of killing off rare dialects spoken on ...