Hefei Shilimiao Primary School students start mornings with a special regimen performed with abacuses. Provided to China Daily Related video: Education crisis: Kids find abacus a total alien object ...
Editor's note: Chinese Zhusuan refers to the knowledge and practice of performing arithmetic calculations using an abacus. It was added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2013, becoming ...
A Japanese abacus (soroban) held over an older style Chinese abacus (suan pan). Photograph by Forrest M. Mims IIIFORREST M MIMS 111 Photo Caption: A Japanese abacus (soroban) held over an older style ...
More than 200 students at Shanghai Lixin University of Commerce have applied to take a course in how to use a Chinese abacus. Such lessons were once mandatory at the university, but they were phased ...
The world is recalculating the abacus' added historical and contemporary value since the device was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List last month. Xu Lin reports. New interest in the ancient ...