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A Handbook of Traditional C
The Chinese Scholar's Desk
CAMERON Nigel [Other titles by this author]
Stock ID: 21908
ISBN: 9789889826956
FormAsia 1st Edition
190 x 100mm.
To the Chinese scholar, the preparation for recording his thought was as important as the execution. On his desk lay The Four Treasures, the symbols of his calling: paper, brushes, inkslab and ink, so arranged as to inspire the best of his talent. His ink was the medium for transmitting his message, his brush the conduit through which his spirit flowed on to carefully selected paper. Calligraphy in China ranked on a par with painting and poetry, as hallmarks of a man of accomplishment and discriminating taste. From an examination of his desk, and what was arranged upon it, one might gauge the measure of the man. Here one found, in microcosm, a treasury of the finely wrought implements that had given expression to one of the world?s greatest civilisations. This book takes the reader into the scholar?s study and seats him at that desk. (For this item please quote stock ID 21908)
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