Hidden letters.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Du Feng, Violet, director.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nü shu.

Women--China--Social conditions--History.

Women.

Chinese language--Writing--History.

Chinese language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (01:27:09)) : sound, color

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Good Docs, 2022.

Language Note:

Closed-captions in English.

Summary:

Women in China were historically forced into oppressive marriages and forbidden to read or write by their households for thousands of years. To cope, they developed and shared a secret language among themselves called Nushu. Written in poems or songs with bamboo pens on paper-folded fans and handkerchiefs, these hidden letters bonded generations of Chinese women in a clandestine support system of sisterhood, hope, and survival. Spanning between past and present, from sunken rice fields and rural villages to bustling metropolitan cities, Hidden Letters follows two millennial Chinese women who are connected by their fascination with Nushu and their desire to protect its legacy. In Jiangyong, Hu Xin works as a Nushu museum guide and aspires to master the ancient script following the breakup of her marriage. In Shanghai, Simu is passionate about music and Nushu, but marital expectations threaten to end her pursuit of both. Influenced by Nushu's legacy of female solidarity, the two women struggle to find balance as they forge their own paths in a patriarchal culture steeped in female subservience to men.

Participant:

Director, Violet Du Feng.

Notes:

Description based on XML content.

ISBN:

1-03-624839-9

9781036248390

OCLC:

1584442825

Publisher Number:

301837