Cracking the Chinese code
By Liu Jun | China Daily | Updated: 2008-09-16 07:45
Pan Chaolin (right) examines a document with the help of two Shuishu masters. Ren Suipan |
If someone could read the strange pictographs on a yellowing book of some 30 pages, he or she could not only pick up a 10,000-yuan reward, but also be privy to understanding the birth of the Chinese written language, thousands of years ago.
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