Chen Yulu never thought her home province of Hunan had any culture that she would be proud of, much less become an ambassador of. But these days, the 23-year-old is a self-proclaimed ambassador of ...

In the summer of 1949, the year the Communists came to power in China, you might have found He Yanxin, then ten, sitting with her grandmother under a tree. It was cooler there, in the heat of the day.

Nushu, the secret women's script of the Yao minority in China, was widely declared extinct last year, when its most famous user, Yang Huangyi, a local matriarch, died aged 92. But obituaries for the ...

Nushu emerged from the isolated villages of southern China and is the only language created and used exclusively by women. Today it is celebrated across China as a symbol of female empowerment, but ...

This documentary about the enduring legacy of Nushu, an ancient, secret language developed by women in southern China, raises more questions than it successfully answers. By Devika Girish When you ...

Thanks to a gift from the Ford foundation, a unique museum to record and preserve Nushu language is expected to be built in 2007 in Jiangyong County in Hunan. Speaking last week, a Hunan government ...

Hunan province leads the revival of Nushu, the female-only writing system, Wang Kaihao reports. In mountainous Jiangyong county in Central China's Hunan province, Hu Xin is busy receiving the crew of ...

THOUGH NuShu was a secretive coded script – used exclusively by women in Hunan, China to record their most private thoughts – the performance, by Water Reflection Dance Company (from Taiwan), that ...

400 years ago, women in China's Hunan province had their feet bound and were confined to their chamber rooms. To find a way to cope, they invented Nushu, a secret language men could not understand. We ...

The earliest known artifact in the Nushu script was a 1850s' coin. Though its history may date longer, its origin is unknown. In an ongoing project hosted by Zhao, a phone app is being designed by ...