Smithsonian Magazine1y
Nearly 1,000 Years Old, This Text Shows the Ingenuity of Chinese Woodblock Printing
The extraordinary text is at the center of a new exhibition ... it was the third attempt in Chinese history to centralize, translate and print Buddhist scripture. Each page is joined to the ...
Phys.org21d
Chinese only introduced a feminine pronoun in the 1920s—now, it might adopt a gender-inclusive one
Chinese, one of the world's oldest languages and spoken by more than ... are used in a large database of contemporary Chinese texts. My research found gender-inclusive pronouns accounted for ...
scmp.com8y
111-year-old Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang, his pinyin system and the legacy he left behind
Most people have probably never heard of 111-year-old linguist Zhou Youguang. But if you’re learning Chinese, you’ve seen his work. He helped develop the pinyin writing system – the ...
The Conversation21d
Chinese only introduced a feminine pronoun in the 1920s. Now, it might adopt a gender-inclusive one
Chinese, one of the world’s oldest languages and spoken by more than ... are used in a large database of contemporary Chinese texts. My research found gender-inclusive pronouns accounted for ...