STORY: Scholars visit China's Anyang on digitalization of oracle bone inscriptions
SHOOTING TIME: June 22, 2024
DATELINE: June 24, 2024
LENGTH: 00:01:27
LOCATION: ANYANG, China
CATEGORY: CULTURE

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the scholars in Anyang, China
2. SOUNDBITE (English): YAN HE, Head of Chinese Section, Cambridge University Library

STORYLINE:

Scholars from multiple countries including the U.S., UK, and France, visited Anyang in China's Henan Province on Friday and Saturday.

They visited National Museum of Chinese Writing, Yinxu Museum, and Key Laboratory of Oracle Bones Information Processing in Anyang Normal University, to understand the structural features and evolution of Chinese characters, as well as exploring how Chinese experts digitalize oracle bone inscriptions.

SOUNDBITE (English): YAN HE, Head of Chinese Section, Cambridge University Library
"So after I visited, I thought that's just a coincidence because now in Cambridge, we have started the new collaborative project with UCSD in the U.S. So that enabled us to digitize our Hopkins oracle bones in 2D and 3D formats.
So after I met actually the chairperson at Anyang Normal University, he showed me the new open access databases that they have been creating. I thought that's a great opportunity for us to collaborate. So if in the future, for instance, we can jointly build database together, that will benefit the researchers of oracle bones throughout the world."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Anyang, China.
(XHTV)