A secret world sprung form the script that gave Jiangyong women a voice through which they found friends and solace.

JIANGYONG, China — Stooped over like a wilted rose, 95-year-old Yang Huanyi hobbles out of her tiny, spartan home to receive guests who come calling from around the world. In her gnarled hands ...

Nüshu is a phonetic script read right to left that represents an amalgamation of four local dialects spoken across rural Jiangyong. Each symbol represents a syllable and was written using ...

A secret world sprung form the script that gave Jiangyong women a voice through which they found friends and solace. That secret world still resonates today as a source of strength for young women ...

Yang Huanyi, the last surviving writer and speaker of an enigmatic language invented and used only by women in a small pocket of central China, has died.

In Jiangyong, the women used nüshu to record their feelings of melancholy: sadness over leaving their parents when they married, grief over losing a loved one, heartbreak, regrets. Like Japanese ...

In "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan," Lisa See studies "nu shu," a phonetic script developed by women centuries ago in Jiangyong County ...

Zhou Jiangyong, 54, is accused of taking advantage of his positions by accepting huge bribes for almost two decades.