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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I first heard my daughter was going to take abacus lessons after school, I didn’t really know what to make of it. I never touched one myself and just considered it one of those obsolete tools of ...

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 ...