Post by NZBC on Jun 12, 2007 21:47:39 GMT 12
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The discovery of a corpus of manuscripts written in an unknown script (n¨¹shu) by women for their sworn sisters in an isolated area of rural China is one of the most intriguing discoveries in the field of Chinese popular culture during the 1980s. The n¨¹shu manuscripts were (re)discovered in an isolated community in Jiangyong county in Hunan province in 1983. In 1991 Xie Zhimin and others published Chinese translations of n¨¹shu writings, thus making this unique corpus accessible to researchers in the China field.[1]
The discovery of a corpus of manuscripts written in an unknown script (n¨¹shu) by women for their sworn sisters in an isolated area of rural China is one of the most intriguing discoveries in the field of Chinese popular culture during the 1980s. The n¨¹shu manuscripts were (re)discovered in an isolated community in Jiangyong county in Hunan province in 1983. In 1991 Xie Zhimin and others published Chinese translations of n¨¹shu writings, thus making this unique corpus accessible to researchers in the China field.[1]