Alibaba’s research arm Damo Academy has developed a machine learning model that uses optical character recognition (OCR) to turn characters in ancient Chinese classics into text. As Chinese ancient ...

The 2,300-year-old manuscripts, comprising over 900 characters, are the earliest known examples of a classical Chinese book in the true sense, playing a crucial role in the study of ancient Chinese ...

To the two Chinese tomb robbers who found it beneath a pile of rotting planks in 1934, the ragged piece of silk bearing strange, barely discernible characters and drawings looked like nothing more ...