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e. gwozdz / 20, boston

posts tagged "chinese"
sombhatt:

Nüshu (literally “women’s writing” in Chinese) is a syllabic script created and used exclusively by women in the Jiangyong County in Hunan province of southern China. Up until the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) women were forbidden access to formal education, and so Nüshu was developed in secrecy as a means to communicate. Since its discovery in 1982, Nüshu remains to be the only gender-specific writing system in the world.Read more here.
tsovinar:

A girl studying how to play a traditional chinese instrument (probably a pipa) in the Musical Academy of Shanghai, Shanghai, China
National Geographic Brazil, March 1981