A competition to promote AI-assisted research and use of oracle bone script is announced during the 2025 China (Anyang) International Conference of Chinese Characters in Anyang, Henan province, on ...

The man behind the account is Richard Sears, an American who moved to China 15 years ago. Well known among Chinese language ...

Courtesy of People's Daily Overseas Edition. How much do you really know about Chinese characters? Beyond writing, do you ...

Traditionally, deciphering a single oracle bone character requires rigorous research based on intensive reading, according to Liu Yongge, director of the Laboratory of Oracle Bone Inscriptions ...

One of the world’s oldest surviving collections of writing, scratched into ‘oracle bones’ by Shang dynasty chroniclers more than three millennia ago, is finally giving up its secrets. Using a powerful ...

Japantastics introduces Kei Sato's Kodaimoji artworks that transform 3,000-year-old Chinese scripts into contemporary art, bridging ancient cultural heritage with modern design sensibilities.

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Chops (seals) have been widely used since the Chou (1122-256 B.C.). The one at left, an oracle bone inscription, is more than 3,300 years old. At right is a bilingual seal (with Han characters on the ...

Oracle Bone Script (OBS), a key element of ancient Chinese writing from the late Shang Dynasty (circa 14th century BCE), provides valuable insights into early Chinese culture and history. Despite its ...

Believe it or not, but the intriguing discovery of China's earliest writing was thanks to an unlikely ally—malaria. When the Chancellor of the Imperial Academy, Wang Yirong, contracted malaria, he was ...