A review in a recent journal issue focusing on romanization led me to discover online the entire text of an interesting new book: Orthography of Early Chinese Writing: Evidence from Newly Excavated Manuscripts, by Imre Galambos. This gives an idea of...

The most recent issue of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (third series, volume 20, part 1, January 2010) features the following articles on romanization movements and script reforms. Editorial Introduction:...

Google Translate has a new function: conversion to Hanyu Pinyin, which would be exciting and wonderful if it were any good. But unfortunately it’s terrible, all things considered. What Google has created is about at the same level as scripts...

Until very recently, Google Maps gave street names in Taiwan in Tongyong Pinyin — most of the time, at least. This was the case even for Taipei, which most definitely has long used Hanyu Pinyin, not Tongyong Pinyin. The romanization on Google Maps was...

Zhou Ji (Zhōu Jì / 周济 / 周濟) is out, in a move that caught many by surprise. Under-fire education minister removed from post, China Daily, November 2, 2009 China Dismisses Its Minister of Education, New York Times, November 3, 2009 China’s...