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In this brisk and accessible history, sinologist Thomas O. Höllmann explains the development of the Chinese writing system and its importance in literature, religion, art, and other aspects of culture. Spanning the earliest epigraphs and oracle bones to writing and texting on computers and mobile phones today, Chinese Script is a wide-ranging and versatile introduction to the complexity and beauty of written text and calligraphy in the Chinese world.Höllmann delves into the origins of Chinese script and its social and political meanings across millennia of history. He recounts the social history of the writing system; written and printed texts; and the use of writing materials such as paper, silk, ink, brush, and printing techniques. The book sheds light on the changing role of literacy and education; the politics of orthographic reform; and the relationship of Chinese writing to non-Han Chinese languages and cultures. Höllmann explains the inherent complexity of Chinese script, demonstrating why written Chinese expresses meaning differently than oral language and the subtleties of the relationship between spoken word and written text. He explores calligraphy as an art, the early letter press, and other ways of visually representing Chinese languages. Chinese Script also provides handy illustrations of the concepts discussed, showing how ideographs function and ways to decipher them visually.

Calligraphy, Chinese. --- Chinese language --- Writing. --- Chinese calligraphy --- Ideography

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"Eulogy for Burying a Crane (Yihe ming) is perhaps the most eccentric piece in China's calligraphic canon. Apparently marking a burial of a crane, the large inscription, datable to 514 CE, was once carved into a cliff on Jiaoshan Island in the Yangzi River. Since the discovery of its ruins in the early eleventh century, it has fascinated generations of scholars and calligraphers and has been enshrined as a calligraphic masterpiece. Nonetheless, skeptics have questioned the quality of the calligraphy and have complained that its fragmentary state and worn characters make any assessment of its artistic value impossible. Moreover, historians of calligraphy have trouble fitting it into their storyline. Such controversies illuminate moments of discontinuity in the history of Chinese calligraphy that complicate the mechanism of canon formation. In this volume, Lei Xue examines previous epigraphic studies and recent archaeological finds to consider the origin of the work in the sixth century, and then traces its reception history after the eleventh century, suggesting that formation of the canon of Chinese calligraphy over two millennia has been an ongoing process that is embedded in sociopolitical realities of particular historical moments. This biography of the stone monument Eulogy for Burying a Crane reveals Chinese calligraphy to be a contested field of cultural and political forces that have constantly reconfigured the practice, theory, and historiography of this unique art form"--

Calligraphy, Chinese. --- Chinese calligraphy --- Yi he ming. --- I ho ming --- 瘞鶴銘

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Aesthetics, Chinese --- Art, Chinese --- Calligraphy, Chinese --- Chinese calligraphy --- Chinese art --- Chinese aesthetics --- Aesthetics, Chinese. --- Art, Chinese. --- Calligraphy, Chinese. --- Art chinois

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This unusual and interesting book is a fascinating account of the world of Chinese writing. It examines Chinese space and the political and social use of writing as propaganda, a publicity booster and as a ladder for social climbing.

Calligraphy, Chinese --- Personality and culture --- Chinese calligraphy --- Social aspects. --- China --- Civilization --- Civilization. --- Personality and culture. --- Since 2002. --- China.

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S17/0700 --- S17/2107 --- China: Art and archaeology--Calligraphy --- China: Art and archaeology--Musea and exhibitions: Other Asian countries --- Exhibitions --- Calligraphy, Chinese --- Exhibitions. --- Chinese calligraphy