At a calligraphy class in Hanoi, Hoang Thi Thanh Huyen slides her brush across the page to form the letters and tonal marks ...

The history of romanized Vietnamese, or Quoc Ngu, links the arrival of the first Christian missionaries, colonization by the ...

When the Avignon-born Jesuit Alexandre de Rhodes published the first Portuguese-Vietnamese-Latin dictionary under his own ...

The Chinese word for calligraphy, shufa, or “way of writing,” can be ... sensitive touch to their impromptu letters and manuscripts. Many calligraphers of this period, including major figures such as ...

but the stature of calligraphy in Chinese culture is unmatched. In China, from a very early period, calligraphy was considered not just a form of decorative art; rather, it was viewed as the supreme ...

People have a lot of strategies for dealing with anxiety – medication, therapy or exercise, for instance. But a new study ...

Star and Cloud is hosted by the National Museum of China and the Fo Guang Shan Foundation for Buddhist Culture and Education. It is a collection of Hsing Yun's calligraphy, manuscripts ...

In the exhibition, lines from each poem are reproduced with the fluid strokes of Chinese calligraphy. According to exhibition curator Xinde Shen, Chinese calligraphy is “the core, the essence of ...

He wandered through the open-air markets, testing his language skills and admiring the wares – especially items featuring intricate Chinese calligraphy. The brushes (maobi) in all sizes and ...