The Chinese civilization boasts the world's oldest continuous written languages. On Monday, that literary tradition was honored with the opening of the National Museum of Chinese Writing. The new ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two books on Chinese writing illustrate how tumultuous technological evolution can be. Every second of every day, someone is typing in Chinese. In a park in Hong Kong, at a desk in Taiwan, in the ...

CHICAGO One of the stars of the Oriental Institute’s new show, “Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond,” is a clay tablet that dates from around 3200 B.C. On it, ...