Calligraphy, or shufa, is one of the four basic skills and disciplines of the Chinese literati, the other three being painting (hua), playing a stringed musical instrument (qin) and board games (qi).

Brice Marden, “Etchings to Rexroth” (1986), print; sugarlift, aquatint, openbite, drypoint, and scraping. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Purchase through a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Large public exhibits of ancient Chinese calligraphy are rare in the United States, as are major shows that can be appreciated by kids as well as adults, novices as well as experts.

Jerry Yang was at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum the other day, giving Mayor Ed Lee a tour of "Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy," a smashing show drawn from the Yahoo co-creator's ...

One of the things about China that foreigners find most fascinating and mystifying is Chinese characters, hanzi. The thousands of ideograms are beautiful and completely different from what an ...

In the age of keyboards and touch-screens, calligraphy's stylish strokes can still enchant the young, as was seen during an international event in Beijing. The First "Sino-Culture Cup", an ...

“Can you draw me a Labubu?” a child eagerly asks Vivian Ng at a bustling Chinese New Year roadshow. The 33-year-old, known for her inventive take on Chinese calligraphy, smiles warmly as she ...

TUNIS, April 24 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese university press and the Confucius Institute at Carthage University signed a cooperation agreement on Chinese calligraphy education in the Tunisian capital on ...

One of my biggest surprises as a blogger has been the passionate interest of so many readers in handwriting instruction, pro and con. (Previous posts here, here, and here.) In exploring the topic I ...

For millennia, adepts of calligraphy in China and connoisseurs worldwide have regarded it as the summit of the arts of Asia. "Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy" at the Asian Art Museum ...