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 ...
NEW YORK, December 16, 2008 – Islamic art scholars Oleg Grabar, professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, and Glenn D. Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, engaged in a ...
On the other hand, cursive and semi-cursive are both drawn in flowing strokes where the pen often doesn't leave the paper. There is a word in Chinese to describe this called lian bi (连笔), which means ...