The protracted controversy over the country's official Mandarin romanization system was ended yesterday when the Ministry of Education announced that it opted for the Tongyong Pinyin System (通用拼音).

The Ministry of Education's announcement on Wednesday to adopt Tongyong Pinyin (通用拼音) as the nation's standardized Romanization system for Man-darin has increased tensions between the central and ...

Pinyin is now used to teach Chinese around the world Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang, who created the writing system that turns Chinese characters into words using letters from the Roman alphabet, has ...

FEW people live to 111. Fewer still leave as big a mark on linguistic lives as Zhou Youguang, who died on January 14th. Mr Zhou was the chief architect of pinyin, the system that the Chinese use to ...

Zhou Youguang, a onetime Wall Street banker from China who developed Pinyin, a Romanized writing system that has helped more than 1 billion Chinese and countless foreigners learn to read and write ...

Pinyin, the official Romanization system for standard Chinese, is widely used in learning how to read Chinese characters. After the death of famed Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang on Saturday, Chinese ...

Taiwan was one of the last countries in the world to adopt the pinyin system. Only after the Kuomintang took power in 2008 did the government take the decision, saying that it was necessary to enhance ...

Zhou Youguang, a onetime Wall Street banker from China who developed Pinyin, a Romanized writing system that has helped more than 1 billion Chinese and countless foreigners learn Mandarin, died Jan.

China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs is seeking public comments on a draft proposal aimed at governing the use of place names throughout the country. The new measures are designed to set a uniform ...

Zhou Youguang, who developed the Pinyin system that Romanises characters in the Chinese language, died in Beijing on Saturday. He was 111 years old.HE was born on January 13 in Changzhou, in the ...