The goal of my new book Chineasy is to allow people to learn to read Chinese easily by recognizing characters through simple illustrations and animations. By learning one small set of building blocks, ...

The brainchild of tech entrepreneur and self-confessed geek ShaoLan Hseuh, Chineasy is an attempt to bridge the linguistic gap between the West and China. Essentially, her system turns notoriously ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Chineasy is a strategic, easy-learning project by entrepreneur ShaoLan Hsueh that teaches people to recognize Chinese characters through simple illustration. Watch ...

Recently the use of Chinese characters and the policies related to them have been a concern of many. The debate on traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters is an ongoing issue ...

Swiss author/artist Louis constructs a story around the introduction of 30 simple Chinese characters. Her rather clunky tale follows Liu, a small Chinese girl, as she makes her way to her ...

Chinese characters have been used for about 3300 years, and the earliest Chinese characters were oracle bone inscription. Before New China was founded in 1949 people used traditional characters, but ...

I went to Kyoto for a holiday recently and thoroughly enjoyed the much-needed break. I speak a little Japanese, having learned the language at elementary level years ago, but it is because I read ...