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CHP-154-The Secret Nüshu Script
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:29:34
Publish Date: 2015-05-21 08:12:00
Description: In this shorter than usual episode Laszlo introduces a little piece of culture taken from the southern portion of Hunan Province.  Generations of illiterate women from a single county on the Hunan-Guangxi border, denied education, created their own writing script.  Men never learned it and so it was used by these women to communicate with each other and to record their secret throughts and inspirations.  Almost lost to posterity, Nüshu has made somewhat of a revival and today others are learning it and keeping it alive. Lisa See  http://www.lisasee.com/Lisa See’s Novel about Nüshu, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Learn Mandarin at MSL MASTER:  http://mslmaster.com Yang Yueqing’s documentary “Nü Shu: A Hidden Language of Women in China”http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/makers/fm432.shtml

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