DURING THE decades when Mao Zedong ruled China, it was common for people to address each other as tongzhi: “comrade”. Like its English equivalent, the word has an egalitarian ring, as well as a hint ...

Consider Supporting HoH: The once-mighty Imperial China had faced enormous hardships by the 1860s: the Taiping rebellion, two ...

The compilers of a newly-revised authoritative Chinese dictionary have come under fire for excluding a word commonly used to refer to the country's growing homosexual community from the reference book ...

The term "tongzhi" traditionally means comrade but has evolved to refer to gay men and lesbians Compilers of the dictionary said they didn't want to encourage that use of the word Activists and ...

Democratization and the formation of a robust civil society are the defining elements of Taiwan’s past 30 years. The nation’s experience of nearly four decades under martial law provided the ...

A host of new phrases have been included but an omission has drawn attention A newly published edition of one of China's most authoritative dictionaries has already been criticised by rights ...