Announcement of Symposium on Nushu

     Chinese women’s scripts, Nushu 女書, transmitted across generations of women in the southern part of Hunan Province 湖南省, China, are valuable scripts which display Chinese women’s originality to the full.  But there are only a few transmitters left now, so we are driven by the urgent need to leave complete and accurate records of these scripts for future generations. 

    Consequently, we are pleased to announce an international symposium

entitled “The History, Present Situation and Future of Nushu”

Time: September 10, 2004

Place: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences中国社会科学院 at Jianguomen nei Dajie, Beijing, China 中国北京市建国門内大街

Title: The history, present situation, future of Nushu  

Organizers: Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences中国社会科学院語言研究所and the Japan Society for Study of Chinese Wemen’s Scripts 日本中国女文字研究会

Themes: Researching the origins, history, transmission, and orthography of Nushu, the relation of Nushu to dialects, the literariness and musicality of Nushu works, how to preserve Nushu, etc.

Contact persons:

1. Huang Xuezhen黄雪貞or Bai Changmao 白長茂 e-mail<baichm@cass.org.cn>, Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences中国社会科学院語言研究所 at 5 Jiangguo men nei Dajie, Beijing 100732, China 北京市建国門内大街５号

２．Li Qinan 李奇楠(e-mail xin@bjepb.gov.cn), Department of Japanese Language, Institute of Foreign Languages, Beijing University 北京大学外国語学院日本語学部

3.  Kimiyo Tobari (e-mail tobarin@tbc.t-com.ne.jp), Japan Society for Study of  Women’s Scripts日本中国女文字研究会

Orie Endo (e-mail BXI05557@nifty ne.jp)

Miyamae 3-2-19, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 168-0081, Japan