About this Event
Event Overview
Nüshu (the Chinese women's script) has been, until recent decades, a local mode of interpersonal communication practiced exclusively by women and girls in one part of southwestern Hunan Province, in China. Now that older practitioners have passed on and younger generations have not carried on their traditions, Nüshu is less a language than a code, a cipher that can mean whatever various interest groups need it to. Governments, entrepreneurs, scholars and feminists have all found significance invoking Nüshu to advance their interests.
Cathy Silber, whose feminist longings drew her into the study of Nüshu nearly four decades ago, will explore government, commercial and scholarly interest in Nüshu as context for a deeper inquiry into feminist needs for Nüshu and the possibility of an ethics of representation that honors Nüshu's past while accommodating its present and future.
Organised by UAL Doctoral School
Convened by Yehong Wei
With support from Alison Green, Sedtin Wang and Bob Whalley
- The event will be held in Room HH203. Please register at reception upon arrival.
- Free tea, coffee and light refreshments will be provided.
Event venue & nearby stays
272 High Holborn, 272 High Holborn, London, United Kingdom
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