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Inscribing Intimacy : The Fading Writing Tradition of Nï½shu - Hideko Abe

Inscribing Intimacy

The Fading Writing Tradition of Nï½shu

By: Hideko Abe (Translator), Orie Endo

Paperback | 12 August 2019

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Endo Orie's book is about n shu, a unique form of writing that appeared in rural China in the modern era. As the book reveals, the date of its origin is under dispute. However, like Korean and Japanese writing systems, n shu has a close connection to women since writing with Chinese characters was traditionally tied to patriarchal privilege. Women extrapolated new graphs from conventional Chinese characters, using them to record various aspects of their emotional lives. It ws a script created by women, for heartfelt communication between women. This is an unusually personal book, authored by Endo Orie-a well-known Japanese linguist with many books on gender and language. She stumbled upon the n shu writing system while hiking in Hunan in the 1990s. Here she introduces narrating its discovery and mourning the way its original intimacies are fading away.

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