Zhou’s writing system, formally known as Hanyu Pinyin ... Zhou was raised in a China where the Qing Dynasty still ruled, women bound their feet and men wore their hair in long braids.

But Zhou made important contributions to the Hanyu Pinyin writing system ... example of Pinyin can be traced back to the Tang-Song dynasty. As early as 1,000 years ago, people created a phonetic ...

By the 1100s BCE, the Shang Dynasty was facing encroachments from several states to the west, the most formidable of which was the State of Zhou. The initiator of the Zhou conquest of Shang was Ji ...