Nüshu is considered to be the world’s only writing system that is created and used exclusively by women. Originating in China’s Jiangyong county in the nineteenth century, it gave rise, over time, to a traditional female culture, which is endangered today. The country’s local and national authorities are working to revive it. (source: Unesco). Violet Du Feng directs a documentary that takes this language as its base, by presenting the lives of two of its practitioners today: divorced museum guide, Xin Hu, and a soon-to-be-married musician, Simu Wu, focusing, though, more on the place of women in Chinese society than the actual Nushu.
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Xin Hu works as a tour guide and is also a certified Nushu inheritor, frequently being awarded for her contributions in the legacy of the language, including teaching it to young girls, while...
“Hidden Letters” review is part of the Submit Your Film Initiative
Xin Hu works as a tour guide and is also a certified Nushu inheritor, frequently being awarded for her contributions in the legacy of the language, including teaching it to young girls, while...
- 1/21/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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