In China, it takes blood, sweat and months of studying dictionaries to become a Character Hero. Millions tune in every week to watch teenagers compete for the title. Character Hero is a Chinese-style ...

The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age. By Thomas Mullaney. MIT Press; 376 pages; $34.95 and £32 The National Chinese Characters Typing Competition is rarely cause for ...

As texting and typing on gadgets begin to replace elaborate Chinese writing on paper, more and more Chinese are realizing they suddenly don't remember how to write even a familiar character, the Los ...

Calligraphy, or shufa, is one of the four basic skills and disciplines of the Chinese literati, the other three being painting (hua), playing a stringed musical instrument (qin) and board games (qi).

A company rejected the application of a college graduate for a job because her 400-word handwritten resume contained 24 wrong Chinese characters. Many students display poor Chinese language ...

BBC's Celia Hatton reports from Beijing, and asks whether the Chinese are forgetting how to write their own language. In China, it takes blood, sweat and months of studying dictionaries to become a ...