From vehxiang (buxiang), meaning silence, to labaqiang, implying an unfulfilled promise, and dia, a term to describe both beautiful women and something great, a slew of Shanghainese words in the ...

Almost two years before Wong Kar-wai’s period drama “Blossoms” brought Shanghainese back into the public spotlight, 23-year-old Hu Shiyang began writing her debut novel in the same dialect. Titled ...

Shanghai dialect is filled with localized English words. Most Chinese regions have their own dialects, but few include such a defining European influence.

A hit Chinese television series set in a gritty but glamourous 1990s Shanghai has sparked a wave of nostalgia for the city's boom days and renewed interest in its culture and declining dialect. The ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A small group of scholars, students and local residents of Shanghai are standing up to save their dialect, which traces its roots to one of China's oldest spoken languages, from ...

THERE ARE several reasons why “Aiqing Shenhua”, a new film released on Christmas Eve in Chinese cinemas, has surprised movie buffs. One is that the movie, whose English title is “B for Busy”, is a ...

China has one of the oldest civilisations in the world, with more than 1.4 billion people, whose territories cover a large ...