Can Culture Be China's Next Export?

As China's economy has continued its double-digit growth, entrepreneurs are beginning to ask if the country's rich cultural heritage backed by 5,000 years of history would be translated into products of universal appeal?...


Can Culture Be China's Next Export?
People's Daily Online, December 29 2007

How Do You Say 'Competitive' ?

Thorn Warnken is one of thousands of American students who are embracing the hottest language of the day: Mandarin Chinese...


How Do You Say 'Competitive' ?
abc7, November 29 2006

Mandarin Chinese classes grow in number, popularity at area schools

Except for the calendar and a few other displays on the wall, nothing much else distinguishes the room as a Chinese class...

Language Advances
Gainesville Times, October 22 2006

Learning the Language of the Future

When you consider China's ever increasing global impact, one Bay area school says Chinese is the new language of success...


Learning the Language of the Future
Tampa Bay's 10 News, October 9 2006

Mandarin lessons pave the road to riches

"When a student is ready the teacher appears." This Buddhist proverb is a good starting point to describe what is rapidly becoming the world's most enthusiastic Chinese-language student: the United States...


Mandarin lessons pave the road to riches
Asia Times, September 26 2006

English Today, Mandarin by 2020?

Many experts who answered the survey noted that as millions more Chinese started to go online, Mandarin might challenge the dominance of English as the lingua franca...


English Today, Mandarin by 2020?
Mediashift (PBS), September 25 2006

School adds Mandarin to curriculum

AN EAST Lancashire school has become the first in the county to make China's official language Mandarin a compulsory subject...


School adds Mandarin to curriculum
Blackburn Citizen, September 23 2006

East meets West in U.S. schools

North Carolina: Paris Buedel is a typical American 8-year-old who is into basketball, piano lessons and Lego. And, oh yes, he spends half of each school day speaking Mandarin...


East meets West in U.S. schools
International Herald Tribune, October 16 2007

China's new cultural revolution

While the world is getting used to China's ballooning global trade surplus, Chinese mandarins are fretting over the one area in which the country has been posting a continuous deficit - culture...


China's new cultural revolution
Asia Times, July 29 2006

China becoming popular student destination

China is becoming a popular destination in the Asia-Pacific region for overseas students, senior official with the Ministry of Education said on Friday in Beijing...


China becoming popular student destination
People's Daily Online, June 16 2006

Pottsgrove educators: You can’t ignore China

It is home to one-third of the planet’s population and is still growing. The growth rate of its economy outstrips anything else on earth...


Pottsgrove educators: You can’t ignore China
Pottstown Mercury News, May 1 2006

Chinese, not Spanish, is language of future

Looking further down the line, however, there’s another language that will be taking over as the one to learn: Mandarin Chinese...


Chinese, not Spanish, is language of future
The Daily Kansan, April 27 2006