China has launched an institute focused on conserving rare and endangered historical disciplines, supporting Beijing’s effort to establish traditional culture as a foundation of its soft power and national narrative.
The institute was inaugurated at the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (UCASS) in Beijing on Friday, together with the launch of an association to consolidate national resources for these studies.
The institute covers a dozen ancient ethnic minority scripts, such as Tangut and Old Tibetan, whose surviving texts shed light on the history of China’s northwestern border regions. It also includes oracle bone inscriptions more than 3,000 years old, representing the country’s earliest known fully developed writing system.
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