| Status | 已發表Published |
| She chants, she forgets, she goes on – an account of the practice of the dying women’s script, nüshu and her stimulus to the manifestations of creative drawing work | |
Lo, Y. Y. P.
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| 2016-07-01 | |
| Source Publication | Forgotten Books and Cultural Memory
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| Abstract | Nüshu, women’s script, is believed to be created and practiced by women in Shangjiangxu Township, Jiangyong County, Hunan Province of China for generations. Such exclusive use among women had remained secret within its own region until the early 1950s and was revealed to the outside world in the 1980s. Its origin remains as myth since most manuscripts were buried when the owners died so that the women could continue their practice in the afterlife. In order to understand this dying culture, how some women communicated in their own script despite deprivation of education, I visited the region three times in the span of five years. In this paper, I describe the chanting practice and the unique culture of some elderly women, at the same time demonstrate how their chants informed my creative drawing work. It aims to open a dialogue connecting women in the practice of chanting, writing and drawing across cultures. While they have demonstrated the possibility of communicating through a different language, I am to write in a different manner so as not to repeat what History had produced. Hence, not adopting a formal academic format, the work is made in a repetitive and fragmentary manner, suggesting a fluid writing and interrupting the linear tradition of History. |
| Keyword | nüshu women’s script forgotten memory chanting writing drawing practice women’s culture sexual difference |
| Language | 英語English |
| The Source to Article | PB_Publication |
| PUB ID | 22021 |
| Document Type | Conference paper |
| Collection | Faculty of Education |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Lo, Y. Y. P.. She chants, she forgets, she goes on – an account of the practice of the dying women’s script, nüshu and her stimulus to the manifestations of creative drawing work[C], 2016. |
| APA | Lo, Y. Y. P..(2016). She chants, she forgets, she goes on – an account of the practice of the dying women’s script, nüshu and her stimulus to the manifestations of creative drawing work. Forgotten Books and Cultural Memory. |
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