This is a Chinese-English bilingual book for learning Chinese calligraphy. In this book, the basic knowledge of Chinese calligraphy is covered, along with techniques of brush writing. In order to have a more systematic teaching material, the basic calligraphy knowledge (11 chapters) is arranged in the front part of the book; and the calligraphy practice (14 chapters) is placed in the rear part of the book. This basic calligraphy book is recommended as a one semester college course; it is also suitable to use as a self learing primer. When used as a textbook in classrooms, instructors should not feel bounded by the sequence of the subjects in the chapters, but rather to select and rearrange as she or he feels suitable. Indeed, instructors should also feel free to supplement contents in this book with any additional materials such as stories and figures to increase the richness and interest of specific topic. In this book, Simplified Chinese characters are used in the text of the book. However, many Traditional Chinese characters are used in the demonstration and exercise sections for teaching.

In Chinese and English, with a DVD (100 minutes)

208pp

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