Nüshu archival collage

AI Nüshu

AI Nüshu (AI 女书)

Nüshu (女书), Also called "Women's Script," is a unique language created and used exclusively by women in Hunan Province, China. In pre-modern times, local women were denied the right to read and write, so they created Nüshu as a secret means of communication.

Can AI learn from ancient Chinese women and create their own secret language?

This project trains AI agents to imitate illiterate women in pre-modern China to create a new language system, symbolizing the defiance of patriarchal constraints and the emergence of language in a non-Western, feminist context.