Comments on: Much Ado about Nushu [an Invited Post] http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2004/02/29/much-ado-about-nushu-an-invited-post/ The personal blog of P. Kerim Friedman. Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:00:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Underground Railroad Quilt Code Myth http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2004/02/29/much-ado-about-nushu-an-invited-post/comment-page-1/#comment-398 Underground Railroad Quilt Code Myth Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:24:05 +0000 http://keywords.oxus.net/?p=1546#comment-398 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] In 1993 Jacqueline Tobin, a former therapist who taught writing, women's history  and "women's words" at a Denver college, was wandering a Charleston, South Carolina tourist mall in search of information about baskets.  Tobin had recently coauthored The Tao of Women with sociology professor and New Age author Pamela Metz, whose The Tao of... books include Calm, Loss and Grief, Learning, Gardening, and Travel. Although The Tao of Women claims that "in 1950, a secret woman's writing was discovered near Hunan, China", anthropologists and linguists point out that nu shu was actually a simplified adaptation of standard Chinese writing, and that it was not "secret" - merely ignored by men. [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] In 1993 Jacqueline Tobin, a former therapist who taught writing, women’s history  and "women’s words" at a Denver college, was wandering a Charleston, South Carolina tourist mall in search of information about baskets.  Tobin had recently coauthored The Tao of Women with sociology professor and New Age author Pamela Metz, whose The Tao of… books include Calm, Loss and Grief, Learning, Gardening, and Travel. Although The Tao of Women claims that "in 1950, a secret woman’s writing was discovered near Hunan, China", anthropologists and linguists point out that nu shu was actually a simplified adaptation of standard Chinese writing, and that it was not "secret" – merely ignored by men. [...]

]]> By: Mao China http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2004/02/29/much-ado-about-nushu-an-invited-post/comment-page-1/#comment-397 Mao China Wed, 01 Mar 2006 15:08:10 +0000 http://keywords.oxus.net/?p=1546#comment-397 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] World of N [...] World of N

]]> By: Language Log: February 2004 Archives http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2004/02/29/much-ado-about-nushu-an-invited-post/comment-page-1/#comment-394 Language Log: February 2004 Archives Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:08:57 +0000 http://keywords.oxus.net/?p=1546#comment-394 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] Laura Miller, writing as an "invited author" on the excellent weblog Keywords, has a terrific post about the Nushu writing system. She debunks a recent Washington Post article that "is representative of the type of misunderstandings that continues to be perpetuated in reporting on this topic". But she also gives a lucid account of a fascinating subject, where the persistence of misunderstandings is only one of the reasons to be interested. Read the whole thing! Posted by Mark Liberman at 10:35 PM [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] Laura Miller, writing as an “invited author” on the excellent weblog Keywords, has a terrific post about the Nushu writing system. She debunks a recent Washington Post article that “is representative of the type of misunderstandings that continues to be perpetuated in reporting on this topic”. But she also gives a lucid account of a fascinating subject, where the persistence of misunderstandings is only one of the reasons to be interested. Read the whole thing! Posted by Mark Liberman at 10:35 PM [...]

]]> By: Laura Miller http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2004/02/29/much-ado-about-nushu-an-invited-post/comment-page-1/#comment-395 Laura Miller Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:53:15 +0000 http://keywords.oxus.net/?p=1546#comment-395 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] "Much ado about Nushu" Invited contribution to the weblog Keywords.oxusnet.net [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] “Much ado about Nushu” Invited contribution to the weblog Keywords.oxusnet.net [...]

]]> By: Yang Huanyi, la http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2004/02/29/much-ado-about-nushu-an-invited-post/comment-page-1/#comment-396 Yang Huanyi, la Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:28:08 +0000 http://keywords.oxus.net/?p=1546#comment-396 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] Art [...] Art

]]> By: Pinyin news » Blog Archive » Nushu: fact and fiction http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2004/02/29/much-ado-about-nushu-an-invited-post/comment-page-1/#comment-392 Pinyin news » Blog Archive » Nushu: fact and fiction Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:25:46 +0000 http://keywords.oxus.net/?p=1546#comment-392 [...] Laura Miller’s guest piece, “Much Ado about Nushu, at Keywords. [...] [...] Laura Miller’s guest piece, “Much Ado about Nushu, at Keywords. [...]

]]> By: The Melon Colonie http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2004/02/29/much-ado-about-nushu-an-invited-post/comment-page-1/#comment-391 The Melon Colonie Tue, 28 Sep 2004 20:57:05 +0000 http://keywords.oxus.net/?p=1546#comment-391 <strong>Nushu adept dies</strong> According to this article, China's last inheritress of the mysterious Nushu language, probably the world's only female-specific language, died at... Nushu adept dies
According to this article, China’s last inheritress of the mysterious Nushu language, probably the world’s only female-specific language, died at…

]]> By: Tim http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2004/02/29/much-ado-about-nushu-an-invited-post/comment-page-1/#comment-390 Tim Fri, 24 Sep 2004 04:24:23 +0000 http://keywords.oxus.net/?p=1546#comment-390 Hi I really enjoyed the article. I just returned from Jiang Yong a couple weeks ago with Orie Endo and a writer friend. (I'm a photographer, we did a story) Visiting the area helped clear up some misconceptions like it being a 'secret language', but your article concisely lays everything out. I forwarded the link to my writer as even her article left me a bit confused! Sadly, Yang Huanyi, the last true Nushu writer passed away on Monday. Timothy O'Rourke Hi

I really enjoyed the article. I just returned from Jiang Yong a couple weeks ago with Orie Endo and a writer friend. (I’m a photographer, we did a story)

Visiting the area helped clear up some misconceptions like it being a ‘secret language’, but your article concisely lays everything out. I forwarded the link to my writer as even her article left me a bit confused!

Sadly, Yang Huanyi, the last true Nushu writer passed away on Monday.

Timothy O’Rourke

]]> By: Ide Cyan http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2004/02/29/much-ado-about-nushu-an-invited-post/comment-page-1/#comment-388 Ide Cyan Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://keywords.oxus.net/?p=1546#comment-388 The link to �Crossing Gender Boundaries in China: N�shu Narratives� is broken. It should read: <a href="http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/back_issues/nushu2.html">http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/back_issues/nushu2.html</a> Thank you for this blog entry and its many references. The link to �Crossing Gender Boundaries in China: N�shu Narratives� is broken. It should read:

http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/back_issues/nushu2.html

Thank you for this blog entry and its many references.

]]> By: Kerim Friedman http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2004/02/29/much-ado-about-nushu-an-invited-post/comment-page-1/#comment-389 Kerim Friedman Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://keywords.oxus.net/?p=1546#comment-389 Thanks. I fixed the link. Thanks. I fixed the link.

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