Shi Bo, a Chinese calligrapher and writer, is the author of more than sixty prose works in French and Chinese including translations, essays, and novels. He has organized several calligraphy expositions in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, and he teaches calligraphy internationally. He has lived in France since 1990.
A History of Chinese Writing
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Paperback original / Shambhala Publications / 128 pages / 6 X 9-1/4
ISBN 978-1-59030-050-3 / October 2003
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The characters used in Chinese writing are not letters but stylized ideographs, each with its own history. The development of Chinese writing is linked to the history of China's emperors, who commissioned new styles of writing with which to record their victories. In Between Heaven and Earth<...
