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What does it take to begin understanding China? Maybe 5,000 characters... For American college students in the PKU 2026 China Deep Dive program, Roger T. Ames安乐哲, Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Peking University, goes back to the earliest Chinese writing, Oracle Bone Script, and explores how a... show more

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