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 ...

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 ...

Photo Caption: A Japanese abacus (soroban) held over an older style Chinese abacus (suan pan). Photograph by Forrest M. Mims III. Can the old-fashioned one-room schoolhouse provide new lessons for ...

Click to open image viewer. This abacus fits in a black wooden box with a wooden cross piece. Eleven parallel bamboo rods carry seven beads each. Two beads are above the cross piece, five below. The ...