Chinese, also known as Hanyu or Han Chinese, comprises seven major dialect groups that are composed of over 100 sub-dialects. These dialects are major components of the splendid Chinese culture ...

However, there are lasting legacies of this imperial period. One is language. In modern China there are three dialect groups, all closely related to one another and descended from the language of the ...

This is yet another aspect of China and Chinese society that is easy to see as a monolith, but doing so would allow this number to obscure the many complexities and subtleties of the real story. In ...

Why so? Let me explain. The Hakkas are the fourth-largest dialect group in the Chinese community in Singapore, after the Hokkiens, Cantonese and Teochews. There are some 260,000 of us living ...