A script. Many perspectives.

中国女书合集 · Chinese Nüshu Collection

Zhao Liming · 赵丽明 / 2005

A five-volume collection edited by Zhao Liming, published in 2005.

赵丽明编著。《中国女书合集》，五卷，2005。书目核验：東洋文庫馆藏目录。

Gendered Words: Sentiments and Expression in Changing Rural China

Fei-Wen Liu · 劉斐玟 / 2015

Fei-Wen Liu’s ethnographic study of Nüshu and women’s expression.

Fei-wen Liu. Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN 9780190210403.

NüshuRescue: Reviving the Endangered Nüshu Language with AI

Ivory Yang · Weicheng Ma · Soroush Vosoughi / 2025

A computational study of low-resource Nüshu data. Its published title is retained; this site describes Nüshu as a script.

Ivory Yang, Weicheng Ma, Soroush Vosoughi. COLING 2025, 7020–7034. Association for Computational Linguistics.

’98中国女文字調査研究報告 · Nüshu, Women’s Script, Report on ’98

Orie Endo · 遠藤織枝 / 1999

Orie Endo reports on fieldwork conducted in 1998, discussing wedding books, character counts and variant forms. Published in 1999.

遠藤織枝。文教大学机构库，1999；1998年田野调查报告。

Heroines of Jiangyong: Chinese Narrative Ballads in Women’s Script

Wilt L. Idema · 艾德玛 / 2009

English translations of narrative ballads recorded in Nüshu.

Wilt L. Idema (trans.). University of Washington Press, 2009. ISBN 9780295988412.

女書．田野．生命敘說：最後一代女書自然傳人何豔新

Fei-Wen Liu · 劉斐玟 / 2025

An ethnographic book about He Yanxin, life narratives and the changing interpretation of Nüshu.

劉斐玟。中央研究院民族學研究所，2025年12月。ISBN 9786267341988。

From being to becoming: Nüshu and sentiments in a Chinese rural community

Fei-Wen Liu · 劉斐玟 / 2004

Examines how sentiment, text and performance shape women’s experiences.

Fei-wen Liu. American Ethnologist 31(3), 422–439 (2004).

Narrative, Genre, and Contextuality: The Nüshu-Transcribed Liang-Zhu Ballad in Rural South China

Fei-Wen Liu · 劉斐玟 / 2010

Reads a Nüshu-transcribed Liang-Zhu ballad through genre, performance and social context.

Fei-wen Liu. Asian Ethnology 69(2), 241–264 (2010).

Text, Practice, and Life Narrative: Bridal Lamentation and a Daughter’s Filial Piety in Changing Rural China

Fei-Wen Liu · 劉斐玟 / 2011

Studies bridal lamentation, daughterhood and lived practice through women’s life histories.

Fei-wen Liu. Modern China (2011). DOI 10.1177/0097700411407607.

Translating Nüshu: Drawing Nüshu, Dancing Nüshu

Nicola Foster / 2020

Explores how drawing and dance reference and reinterpret Nüshu as an artistic practice.

Nicola Foster. Art in Translation 11(4), 393–416. Published 22 April 2020.

女書四十年—學術力、傳承力和文化政治力

Fei-Wen Liu · 劉斐玟 / 2022

Examines scholarly work, transmission and cultural politics. The issue is dated 2022; its institutional announcement appeared in 2023.

劉斐玟。《近代中國婦女史研究》第39期（卷期标年2022年6月）；中研院2023年4月发布期刊目录。

Unicode Standard Annex #60: Data for East Asian Scripts

Michel Suignard / 2026

Documents source references and ancillary data for East Asian scripts, including Nüshu.

Unicode Consortium. UAX #60, revision 3, 2 September 2026. Editor: Michel Suignard.

Online Nushu Dictionary · Unicode Nushu List

An online correspondence list connecting Unicode Nüshu characters with reference data.

Online Nushu Dictionary. Unicode Nushu List. Accessed 2026-10-29.