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    Calling and Recalling: The Sentiments of Women's Script (Nüshu)

    Yu-I KUO 2012 Taiwan Documentary color 74min Mandarin DigiBeta
    Nüshu is a female-specific writing system, circulating in Jiangyong County, Hunan Province, China.
Women in Jiangyong have been using nüshu to write biographic laments, make sworn sisters, and release sentiments of misery. This script has been silently practiced in this area for many hundred years. In autumn of 2004, I prepared to leave for China. But the news came to me, the last nüshu practitioner Yang Huanyi died. Nüshu became a calling that could never be recalled. A few years later, I met Prof. Liu Fei-Wen. I then realized. In that allegedly dead script still lives a woman who can write in nüshu – He Yanxin.

    Director

    Yu-I KUO

    Yu-I Kuo was born in Taipei. She received a B.A. in Chinese Literature from National Taiwan University in Taiwan, and Ph.D. in Visual Anthropology from School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in France. Her research areas include shaman women of Akha in China and the "women's script," circulating in rural south China.

    Director's Statement ▾

    Yu-I KUO

    2012 Calling and Recalling: The Sentiments of Women's Script (Nüshu)

             After the Snow

    2007 The Nipa

    2005 Faraway Sunlight on the Akha

    Director／郭昱沂Yu-I KUO

    Producer／劉斐玟Fei-Wen LIU  謝嘉錕 Chia-Kuen HSIEH

    Cinematographer／謝嘉錕Chia-Kuen HSIEH  余雋江Chuan-Chiang YU

    Editor／余雋江Chuan-Chiang YU  郭昱沂Yu-I KUO

    Sound／周震Cheng CHOU

    Music／涂智奎Chih-Kuei TU

    Production & Sales Company /郭昱沂 Yu-I KUO 
    Email: yuikuo@gmail.com 

     

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