# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Seeking the Origins of the Chinese Writing System: A Sociolinguistic Perspective by Benjamin K. Tsou
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 12 Dec, 2025 at 07:00 pm – Fri, 12 Dec, 2025 at 10:00 pm
- **Event Description**: The Hong Kong Anthropological Society in association with The Hong Kong Museum of History* presents

Seeking the Origins of the Chinese Writing System: A Sociolinguistic Perspective: An anthropological lecture by Benjamin K. Tsou

Friday, 12 December at 7:00 p.m.
Hong Kong Museum of History
Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, 100 Chatham Road South, Tsim Sha Tsui
All are welcome! Space, however, is limited to 139 seats.
The lecture is conducted in English.

This talk will explore the development of the Chinese writing system. Chinese civilization is recognized as five thousand years old but the Chinese writing system appeared only three millennia
ago as serial symbols inscribed on oracle bones. Recently, significantly earlier dating has been suggested. This has been based on: (1) evidence of extensive urban development and hierarchical complexity, making serious record keeping essential, and (2) the encoding of matriarchy, cowry shells, and perhaps extinct elephantine mammals within the logographic radical framework of the Chinese writing system. These provide factors for comparison with languages which evolved as phonological writing systems, as this talk will explicate.

Benjamin K. Tsou is Emeritus Professor in Language Information Sciences at City University of Hong Kong. He works primarily on Chinese language and cultural changes.

For more information, please contact anthrohk@gmail.com, www.cuhk.edu.hk/ant/hkas,

www.facebook.com/hkanthro,@HKASTalks

* The Museum makes no representations on the content of this lecture.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/hong-kong/seeking-the-origins-of-the-chinese-writing-system-a-sociolinguistic-perspective-by-benjamin-k-tsou/200028865815131
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Hong Kong
- **state**: HK
- **country**: Hong Kong
- **location**: Hong Kong Museum of History 香港歷史博物館
- **lat**: 22.301388842578
- **long**: 114.17722529464
- **full address**: Hong Kong Museum of History 香港歷史博物館, Hong Kong Science Museum, Jia Lian Wei LaoDao, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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- **Q**: When and where is Seeking the Origins of the Chinese Writing System: A Sociolinguistic Perspective by Benjamin K. Tsou being held?
  - **A:** Seeking the Origins of the Chinese Writing System: A Sociolinguistic Perspective by Benjamin K. Tsou takes place on Fri, 12 Dec, 2025 at 07:00 pm to Fri, 12 Dec, 2025 at 10:00 pm at Hong Kong Museum of History 香港歷史博物館, Hong Kong Science Museum, Jia Lian Wei LaoDao, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
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