Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, Arch Chinese is a leading online Mandarin learning platform founded in 2008 by a group of passionate and experienced bilingual Chinese educators. Our mission is to provide a high-quality system that helps dedicated learners study Mandarin Chinese in a practical, effective, and enjoyable way. Designed specifically for English speakers with little or no prior knowledge of Mandarin, Arch Chinese has grown into one of the most popular and respected tools for learning and teaching Chinese online.

Since our beta release, we’ve received enthusiastic feedback from users around the world. We would like to extend our special thanks to the following individuals for their valuable guidance and suggestions:

• Professor Tim Xie, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, California State University, Long Beach.
• Professor Hongyin Tao, Chinese Language and Linguistics & Applied Linguistics and TESL, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles.
• Julia Espina, Alex Mitrofanov, John Delrowe, Kevin Bogle, Peter Van Bruggen, John Goodson, Gurf Yeo, May Ditan, Cindy Franklin, Regis Cheval, Li-Ling Cheng, Christine Tsai, Elizabeth Yew, Htoo MYINT, Lauren Spear,Grace Wang, Isa Almisry and many others.

Our Chinese-English dictionary uses the word entries from CEDICT, a public domain Chinese-English dictionary created by Paul Andrew Denisowski.