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Learning Chinese is becoming more and more popular in the Western nations. However we can see that China's visa policy becomes stricter every year. Are these people learning a language of a country they might not be allowed to enter in the future?

Following on the World Bank’s 2001 publication, China and the Knowledge Economy: Seizing the 21st Century, this book is another exceptional product I would like to recommend to the Chinese audience. The essence of lifelong learning is to provide opportunities for people to learn throughout their ...

I've compiled some resources for learning Cantonese. First I made this list for private reasons, but I feel that others might find value in this list. It is by no means complete, feel free to add other good Cantoese learning resources in the comments section

Some interesting news over at Ken Carroll's blog announcing that Praxis Language, the folks behind Chinesepod.com, have been hired by the Confucius Institute to design their online learning system. Props to Praxis for landing the fat account, and smart thinking from the CI for going to the forerunners in online language learning.

Ken Carroll, Founder of ChinesePod, introduces us to his company's new media approach to learning Chinese and draws upon his 13 years of China experience to lend some advice to newcomers to China's business landscape.

In the newest Lost Laowai post, John raises some interesting questions about whether being "Chinese" is actually the multi-ethnic melting pot the CPC brochures tout, or if it is a highly fragmented collection of close-knit pockets.

Ok. So most of us are well aware of the Chinese Chat software, QQ. Chances are, if you know a Chinese person, or someone learning Chinese, you know a registered QQ user. But until recently there was no English sign-up page or a Mac version of the QQ application...

With an estimated 30 Million people learning Chinese worldwide a bi-lingual learner

Oiwan Lam has translated an interesting article by Ip Iam-chong that originally ran in Ming Pao Daily and discusses China's "610 Office" whose mandate is to "coordinate the collection of information, monitor and arrest dissents across the country". The comparison of this unit and the Gestapo that Ip Iam-chong makes is not hard to see.