A new digital archive is making thousands of mysterious ancient Chinese emblematic symbols accessible to anyone with an internet connection. Yuwei Zhou, a PhD candidate in the Department of East Asian ...

New research suggests that the earliest known Chinese characters have possibly been unearthed at the Liu­linxi Neolithic site in Zigui county, Central China's Hubei Province, pushing the origins of ...

BEIJING — Archaeologists say they have discovered a new form of primitive writing in markings on stoneware excavated from a relic site in eastern China dating about 5,000 years back. The inscriptions ...

The recent unearthing of ancient Chinese relics has opened up new possibilities for the timeline of written communication. These artifacts, fascinatingly etched with intricate markings, provide a ...

The discovery of 5,000-year-old linguistic inscriptions predates by 1,400 years the earliest known Chinese writing and matches the age of the oldest known human writing in Mesopotamia. (via ...

Feng Shi confirmed that inscriptions on ceramic stands from Liulinxi are the earliest known Chinese characters, appearing in groups rather than alone, making them easier to interpret. Replicas of ...

Like every Chinese child, Li Hanwei spent her schooldays memorising thousands of the intricate characters that make up the Chinese writing system. Yet aged just 21 and now a university student in Hong ...

This research was conducted with Simon Jerome Han as lead author. Piers Kelly receives funding from an ARC DECRA Fellowship. Charles Kemp's work on this project was supported by an ARC Future ...

Few things in Chinese culture are more widely misunderstood outside of China than the Chinese language. The Chinese write very differently from us and indeed from all other literate societies in today ...