Whether or not we have the skill to read them, Chinese characters are all around us. Examples of one of the world's oldest writing systems pop up anywhere you look: on gaudy backlit restaurant ...

BEIJING — Zhou Youguang, a linguist considered the father of modern China’s Pinyin Romanization system, died Saturday at the age of 111. Born in 1906 during China’s last imperial dynasty ...

Chinese technologies, that is. Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession and Genius in Modern China by Jing Tsu, Allen Lane £20, 336 pages James Kynge is the FT’s global China editor ...