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It’s Friday night in Ikebukuro, a Tokyo entertainment district full of cheap bars and pachinko parlors. As the office workers head to their favorite watering holes, three salarymen split from the ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Ever imagined what it would be like to understand your favorite Chinese dramas without subtitles? Maybe you’ve gotten hooked on the ...

In the relaxed cadences of her native Taiwan, Kelly Chuang instructed her students to repeat after her. “Wo bu shi taiwan ren. Wo shi meiguo ren” — “I’m not Taiwanese. I’m American.” She projected the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The data would seem to be in: China is poised to become the world's ...

When Deborah Fallows went to live in China with her husband, she was armed with a few semesters of Mandarin lessons. But when she got to Shanghai, she found she couldn't recognize or speak a single ...

I broke up with my very long-term girlfriend last December. Since then I've met a number of Chinese nationals who are very fun and sweet but know very little English, and I know virtually no Chinese.

Students at Station Middle School eagerly showed their cultural understanding of China, greeting a Chinese diplomat who recently visited the Barrington school with Chinese welcome songs and the ...