During the National Day holiday, Professor Zhou Yushu from Inner Mongolia Honder College of Arts and Sciences published two monographs, A Study of China’s Prehistoric Rock Scripts and An Analysis of Korean Rock Art, issued by The Chinese Overseas Publishing House and China Pictorial Publishing House respectively.
A Study of China’s Prehistoric Rock Scripts selects and interprets 216 rock scripts and draws parallels with 18 pottery scripts. Within these rock symbols, the book deciphers 96 individual and composite writing symbols. This finding pushes back the origin of Chinese writing to around 6,000 years ago.
A Study of China’s Prehistoric Rock Scripts
By Zhou Yushu
The Chinese Overseas Publishing House, 2026
An Analysis of Korean Rock Art mainly compiles and sorts out 307 individual rock art panels from 10 rock art sites across the Republic of Korea. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach integrating archaeology, rock art studies, palaeography, geography and meteorology, it conducts focused research on the rock art sites at Cheonjeon-ri in Ulju and Bangudae. Drawing on Chinese rock scripts, oracle bone script and bronze inscriptions, the book identifies the symbolic characters on Korean rock art and classifies 34 symbols identical to those seen in oracle bone script.
An Analysis of Korean Rock Art
By Zhou Yushu
China Pictorial Publishing House, 2026
Author Biography
Zhou Yushu, male, Han ethnicity, formerly President of Honder College of Inner Mongolia Normal University, now serves as President, Professor and Master’s Supervisor at Inner Mongolia Honder College of Arts and Sciences.
In 2000, he was elected a member of the 9th National Committee of the All-China Youth Federation and received an audience with state leaders. He has held the posts of Vice Chairman of the Inner Mongolia Youth Federation, Member of the 8th Inner Mongolia Regional Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Vice Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of the China Association for Non-Government Education, and Vice Chairman of the China Rock Art Association.
He has compiled and published A History of Mongolian Education, Dictionary of School Administration and Introduction to Learning Methods. He is chief editor of a four-volume translated series of classic world rock art works: World Rock Art, The Science of Rock Art, Rock Art of Russia and Indian Rock Art. He co-authored the three-volume Chifeng Rock Art. His other monographs include A Study of Ancient Seal Symbols of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro: Tracing the Origin of Indus Valley Scripts and A Study of China’s Prehistoric Rock Scripts.