Barack Obama’s low-profile brother calls China home
For the past seven years, Barack Obama's half-brother, Mark Ndesandjo, has been living in Shenzhen, China with his Chinese wife, Liu Zue Hua. He speaks Mandarin, is a vegetarian and practices Chinese...
View ArticleIncredible chinese calligraphy - upside down and using foot
A very talented street performer showing off his mad Chinese calligraphy skills using his foot and doing it while standing on his head. Just crazy. Would definitely get my 1RMB. Unfortunately it's a...
View ArticleMillions of readers are moved by the apologizing letter from China's primier
One letter from China's primier Wen Jiabao spreaded on the internet since 12th, Oct in the evening. In this calligraphy full of aesthetic sensibility by brush in black ink, 67-aged Priemier rectified...
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Armless man writes calligraphy to brothers and sisters of Foxconn
May 19, 2010 at noon, an amazing scene on the pedestrian bridge walkway in front of the south entrance to Foxconn Corporation, Shenzhen captured people’s eyes. From Shandong province, an optimistic man...
View ArticleDon't brush off writing
The Ministry of Education (MOE) issued a document last week requiring primary schools to have a calligraphy class once a week for students from third grade to sixth grade and calligraphy-related...
View ArticleInk Dance by Zhi-Ming Su
Please, go here to enjoy a 2-minute clip from Zhi-Ming Su's Ink Dance , a beautiful and elegant combination of music and interaction between Chinese painting, calligraphy, and human movement. more...
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Learn to Write Characters on Your iPad with Word Tracer
Word Tracer, a character writing app exclusively for iPad, is one of the coolest apps for Chinese learners that I've founded. Read about it inside. more...
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Liquid Street Art: Tricycle Deploys Calligraphic Water Poetry
Nicholas Hanna is a Canadian artist who has poured new life into a traditional art form, turning a tricycle into a means of rapidly deploying Chinese characters in liquid form. Like disappearing ink,...
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Wu Yong: The Armless Calligraphy Master from Chengdu
It's a pretty rare person who has mastered the classical art of calligraphy. Wu Yong is all the more exceptional because he writes by holding the brush between his teeth. The armless Sichuanese...
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Complaint that Mainlanders Can't Read Traditional Chinese Reported in...
Hong Kong movie star Anthony Wong has complained on Weibo that "over half of all mainlanders can't read Traditional Chinese, Chinese culture in China is long dead". While this may have irked some...
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