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Among the more than 4,500 oracle bone characters discovered, the meanings of over 3,000 remain a mystery. Scholars now hope ...
The parts of the manuscript returning to China are Wuxing Ling and Gongshou Zhan, known by scholars as Volumes II and III.
Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty ...
The whole notion that a language with around 80,000 written characters could somehow be adapted for use in a typewriter seems bonkers.
Translating to “Clear and Fast,” Lin began designing the MingKwai sometime during the 1940s. Instead of trying to overlay Cangje onto English buttons, his 72-key invention transformed sequential ...
The MingKwai keyboard was invented in 1947 by writer and linguist Lin Yutang, and is capable of producing 80,000-plus Chinese ...
The bureau’s senior statistician Zhao Qinghe said the drop in factory activity was due to “drastic changes in the external environment,” according to a statement in Chinese translated by CNBC.
Walmart and Target have resumed business with some of their Chinese suppliers, after pausing orders for a few weeks due to uncertainties over the imposition of steep US tariffs, two Chinese ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Surging global demand for Chinese stocks led Hong Kong’s exchange operator to its highest-ever quarterly ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Chinese investors are piling into gold funds at a record rate, as Donald Trump’s trade war and fears over ...
American retail giant Walmart has instructed its Chinese suppliers to resume shipping goods to the US, according to a report by the South China Morning Post. The development comes after weeks of ...
A commercial fisherman caught what officials identified as a Chinese mitten crab last week in the Lower Columbia River, just south of the Washington state border, according to the Oregon ...