Many of the roughly 5,000 characters in the "oracle bone script" are still used in modern Chinese (some versions of Chinese recognize tens of thousands of written characters) although some ...

Liu: According to the statistics compiled by Li Zongkun in Compilation of Oracle Bone Script Words (published by Zhonghua Book Company in 2012), there are a total of 4,378 individual characters in ...

The oracle bone below was discovered in China over 100 years ago. At first, nobody knew what they were. Later, historians realised the words inscribed on them were questions and they were able to ...

His translation also plays with typography, using fonts ranging from ancient oracle bone script to stylized lightning symbols commonly seen in comics. Liang drew parallels between "Finnegans Wake" and ...