An estimated 85 million people, living predominantly in the provincial-level municipality of Shanghai as well as in the Zhejiang and Jiangsu Provinces in China, speak the various dialects of Wu. The Wu speakers in Jiangsu Province live primarily south...

Wu (Chinese: 吳方言/吴方言; pinyin: Wú fāngyán Wu dialect; Chinese: 吳語/吴语; pinyin: Wú yǔ Wu language) is one of the major divisions of the Chinese language. It is spoken in most of Zhejiang province, the municipality of Shanghai,...

Tracks for Language "SO WHAT in the hell did Noam Chomsky think about language anyway?" a flustered student asked me last week in an introductory linguistics course at UC Berkeley. "His politics I can handle, but this syntax stuff is way out there."...

The Wu-Tang Clan: Where Are They Now? RZA: He recently gathered the Wu-Tang brethren for an 11-date club tour reunion to celebrate fallen comrade Ol' Dirty Bastard's life. He recently appeared on the cover of Scratch magazine to talk about his current gig:...

Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia combined to dominate the women's 3-meter synchronized springboard event Monday and earn China its eighth diving medal in nine world championship events.Guo and Wu combined grace with pinpoint timing to finish with a score of 355.80 points, well ahead of...

Last week, a group of five women law students from Columbia University took seats on a small makeshift stage, dressed in identical skimpy black hot pants and white tank tops, mimicking law students in classes taught by their 34-year-old professor, Tim Wu. A voice-over pretended...