Cantonese, a southern Chinese dialect with a long history but an uncertain future in China, is being championed around the world in some surprising ways and some unlikely places. At Palacky University ...

Laura Ng had a dual motive for taking Cantonese classes at Stanford. As a PhD student in anthropology, she was researching the history of the Inland Empire Chinatowns. She also wanted to communicate ...

Our native language can be a touchpoint to our cultural identity. To Jessica Shao, it’s much more than that. When I tell people that I speak Cantonese, I’m often asked, “Is that Chinese?” or “Is that ...

Albert Wong had spent his whole life trying —and failing — to type Cantonese characters on a computer. But now, thanks to time allowed by Google’s 20-percent projects, some terrific teamwork and a ...

Hundreds of people staged a peaceful but loud protest in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province Sunday over fears that Cantonese dialect is being threatened. At 5 pm Sunday, at least 1,000 people - mainly in ...

Google Assistant’s expansion story wouldn’t be as impressive without the support for regional dialects and Actions (third-party apps for the virtual helper). Bolstering its presence in regions around ...

Cantonese-speaking livestreamers are accusing Douyin, ByteDance’s version of TikTok for the Chinese market, of prematurely cutting off their streams. The reason? The platform said it couldn’t ...

HONG KONG — I had always presumed that speaking to your child in your native tongue was the most natural thing in the world. Apparently not everyone thinks so. When we held a birthday party for our ...

A video clip in which a little girl from Hong Kong fluently chanting ancient poems in local dialect on the streets of Xi’an city, in Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, has gone viral online, with ...

BEIJING — Hundreds in China’s southern export hub of Guangdong scuffled with police at a weekend protest to support the local Cantonese dialect, a witness said, with a small group of reporters and ...