Japanese cartoon characters are now playing their part in preserving the Shanghai dialect and making the language more popular than ever among the young and hip of Shanghai. For more than four years ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - With the broad release of Google Assistant last week, the voice-assistant wars are in full swing, with Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) ...

With the broad release of Google Assistant last week, the voice-assistant wars are in full swing, with Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and now Google all offering electronic assistants to take your commands.

GUANGZHOU, China/SHANGHAI, China (Reuters) - From the remote mountains of Tibet to the soaring skyscrapers of Shanghai and Guangzhou, an unlikely issue has emerged to both anger and unite China's ...

FORT LEE — Walking into the small, mostly takeout Dumpling Den restaurant along Main Street, you can hear a distinct dialect among the staffers. The bantering back and forth was in Shanghainese, the ...

Back in January 1995, every weeknight at 8:05 sharp, the Shanghainese-language TV show “Sinful Debt” would flicker on to television screens across the city. One of the show’s young directors, Liang ...