An example of Dongba script from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) Photos: VCG French sinologist Joel Bellassen went back to Anyang, Central China's Henan Province recently as a speaker at the 2025 China ...

This week’s guest blog post is by Dr Duncan Poupard, Assistant Professor (Translation) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Naxiologist. He sheds light on some of the most extraordinary, ...

"Shui writing," an ancient pictographic and ideographic script used by the Shui ethnic group in Southwest China, has been found to share similarities with symbols unearthed in various locations across ...

SOME 8500 years ago, people in what is now China started using written symbols to communicate and store knowledge. At first they used pictures to represent words and ideas – a characteristic shared by ...

A one-hour language class on the Dongba script, one of the pictographic writing systems still in use today, was held online on Tuesday as part of a series of events to mark the United Nations' annual ...

Cultural researcher Wei Shizhao organizes a collection of texts in Shui script in Sandu county, southwest China's Guizhou province, July 3, 2019. Wei started learning Shui script in his childhood. So ...

The Indus script, from the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, remains undeciphered despite its use of boustrophedon writing, read alternately left to right and right to left. Featuring pictographic ...

With a population of about 278,009 (as of 1990), the Naxi ethnic group mainly live in concentrated communities in the Naxi Autonomous County of Lijiang in the Yunnan Province, and the rest are ...