While dating back 3,000 years, no one recognized how special the oracle bones of the Shang Dynasty were until 1899. Yet the antiquarian who first perceived the value of the artifacts, etched with ...

SHENZHEN, China, May 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Tencent (00700.HK) today announced the launch of Oracle Bones Corpus (殷契文渊), an online research platform and database for oracle bone researchers and ...

Oracle bone inscriptions represent the earliest known corpus of Chinese writing and remain a critical resource for understanding ancient language, culture and history. Recent advances in deep learning ...

In his new book, "Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present," Peter Hessler tells the story of modern-day China and its growing links to the West as seen through the lives of a handful ...

Hessler, who first wrote about China in his 2001 bestseller, River Town, a portrait of his Peace Corps years in Fuling, continues his conflicted affair with that complex country in a second book that ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. [1] According to Qi Wenxin, a Senior ...

Ancient artifacts offer some of the earliest insight we have into events such as lunar eclipses of the distant past, but for the most part, only experts have access to them. Thanks to 3D printing, ...