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Entrepreneur and venture capitalist ShaoLan Hsueh has developed a simple methodology -- called Chineasy -- to allow non-Chinese readers to learn written Chinese characters. Chineasy-- which aims to ...

When ShaoLan Hsueh realised her children didn't have the patience to learn Chinese, she wanted to simplify it for them – so she worked with graphic artist Noma Bar on a new book that turns a fiendish ...

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This system of illustrated characters and animations was developed to help people learn to read Chinese, and is one of the 76 projects nominated for Designs of the Year 2014 (+ slideshow). Taiwan-born ...

Learning Mandarin or Cantonese may be all the rage but there’s one rather hefty stumbling block: Chinese is the hardest written language in the world. How do you find a way into that forest of ...

Entrepreneur and author ShaoLan Hsueh aims to teach English speakers how to start reading Chinese in under 10 minutes. See an excerpt for the video that was produced for her Kickstarter campaign.

Woman (女) depicts a woman squatting down with her arms folded across the front of her body in an act of submission. Women were the possessions of men, their only function was to produce sons and serve ...