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Chinese Sign Language
In Chinese Sign Language (CSL), the signs are like written Chinese characters. (This is not much different from the way the sign language alphabet resembles written English letters). Just as ASL can have regional variations, Chinese Sign Language comes in many dialects, with the most commonly used one being the Shanghai version.The history of education and childhood website has a good bibliography of articles about deaf education in China, probably it dates back to 1876. Nowadays, China has many schools for the deaf. A small sampling: Fourth school for the deaf (Beijing), Nanjing deaf school, Shanghai Deaf School, Chengdu School for Blind and Deaf Children, Kunming School for Blind and Deaf Children, and Chefoo School for the Deaf.
Estimates say that there are around 3,000,000 deaf people in China. Chinese Sign Language is also spoken in Malaysia y Taiwan.