Huanyi Yang

Chinese linguists say the woman, Yang Huanyi, was the last woman who possessed the most and genuine knowledge of a 400-year-old tradition in which women shared their ...

Yang Huanyi learned to read and write the language as a little girl. Chinese linguists say her death put an end to a 400-year-old tradition in which women shared ...

The 2004 death of Yang Huanyi meant the end of a language with which women communicated "through a set of codes that were incomprehensible to men," reported Xinhua ...