Calligraphy, literally "beautiful writing," has been appreciated as an art form in many different cultures throughout the world, but the stature of calligraphy in Chinese culture is unmatched. In ...

133.5 x 33.5 cm. (52.6 x 13.2 in.) ...

The appreciation and execution of poetry and calligraphy, and later painting, became the means by which the Chinese have understood and expressed themselves as individuals and as members of a society.

International visitors celebrate Chinese New Year at a Shanghai memorial, experience China's rich intangible cultural ...

That's calligraphy," she once said in an interview ... Before World War II, Shinoda penned classic Chinese poems and "waka" Japanese verse while trying to grasp the essence of the form of each ...