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On a bright fall morning at Stanford, Tom Mullaney is telling me what’s wrong with QWERTY keyboards. Mullaney is not a technologist, nor is he one of those Dvorak keyboard enthusiasts. He’s a ...

A student takes part in a calligraphy competition in Jiashan county, Zhejiang province, in August. Ten of the 50 participants will go to Jiaxing for a follow-up competition. Hu Lingxiang / for China ...

The written Chinese language will blow your mind. Each character is made up of an intricate series of strokes, sometimes as many as 64. Combining these characters in different ways can give each one ...

Lena draws the Chinese character "wu" (top) as a sheep, and "kan" as a singing jellyfish. [Photo provided to China Daily] To most people, Chinese characters may seem like random combinations of ...

Editor's note: The auspicious Chinese character "fu" is probably mentioned most during the Spring Festival, while pasting the character written on red paper is one way Chinese people celebrate their ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At one point in Kingdom of Characters, the reader becomes poignantly aware of the forbidding challenges that ...