The South-Central University for Nationalities, situated in Wuhan, Hubei Province, is the most successful institute of Nushu study, because of its close proximity to the location where the Nushu originated. Gong Zhebing, who began his teaching career at the euniversity in the 1980s, is the foremost scholar-he was the first to study the culture-in the Nushu.He advocated the establishment of the university Nushu Study Center.