Embroidery adorned with nyushu letters is displayed in Jiangyong, Central China's Hunan province. Back in 1993, Feng Jingsan, who collects cultural items, stumbled upon a bronze coin dating to the 19th century in an antique market. Their shared curiosity led both Rosie and Feng to discover an extraordinary language — nyushu, the world's only gender-specific script of its kind, created …
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BEIJING — Beijing grumbled but swallowed its irritation in 1997 when then-Speaker Newt Gingrich of the U.S. House of Representatives visited Taiwan, the island democracy claimed by the mainland’s ruling Communist Party as its own territory. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s government is richer, more heavily armed and less willing to compromise over Taiwan following news reports the current speaker, Nancy …
