Scientists at Europe’s famous particle collider briefly created gold ions from lead in a modern twist on the alchemical goal ...

In remote Jiangyong County, the script has been passed down from mother to daughter, elder to younger, for hundreds of years. To get to the downtown area of the county hidden in the hills, visitors ...

She was believed to be in her late 90s. Yang died Sept. 20 at her home in Jiangyong, a bucolic county in Hunan province, the official New China News Agency reported. For years, Yang was the lone ...

Throughout history, women in rural Hunan Province used a coded script to express their most intimate thoughts to one another. Today, this once-“dead” language is making a comeback. China’s ...

Today it is the world’s only script designed and used exclusively by women. It was developed among the rural women of the Xiao River valley, in the Jiangyong county of China’s Hunan province, where ...

With an origin and history shrouded in mystery, nyushu, a type of phonetic script, was passed down among the women of Jiangyong county, Yongzhou, Hunan province. Its name gives away its distinct ...

Embroidery and folding fans adorned with nyushu letters are displayed in Jiangyong county, Yongzhou city, Central China's Hunan province. [Photo provided to China Daily] One evening in 2021 ...

Zhou Jiangyong, 55, pleaded guilty in the case that prosecutors say involved some 193 million yuan netted while serving in various posts from 2001 to 2021, state broadcaster China Central ...

Meaning “women’s script” in Chinese, Nüshu rose to prominence in the 19th Century in Hunan’s Jiangyong County to give the ethnic Han, Yao and Miao women who live here a freedom of ...