Amid the stress of juggling school, extracurriculars and relationships, a perhaps surprising — but scientifically endorsed — outlet is calligraphy, an art that can stimulate the brain and improve ...

Introduction: Axes -- Part I. A History of Mirror Writing: 1. Perspectives : Previous Scholarship on Mirror Writing -- 2. Foundations : The Practice of Mirror Writing -- 3. Orientations : Reversed and ...

Cong Qiang owns a small school supplies store in the port city of Tianjin. While one day preparing to renovate his store, Cong began cleaning up his storehouse and discovered several writing brushes ...

This exhibition Islamic Calligraphy in Practice and its companion exhibition,Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qur’an, explore Islamic art’s quintessential art form: calligraphy. In the ...

Road to Calligraphy Education reviews efforts throughout six decades to integrate calligraphy into the curriculum of higher education. [Photo provided to China Daily] Sensing a highly-likely lack of ...

Hu Wenfu, who lives in Huijin Yuan, Xijiao Road, Jiulongpo District, Chongqing, can write beautiful calligraphy without using a writing brush. Thanks to this unique technique, a few days ago Hu was ...

Sub-inspector, Syamalan PP, is a 55-year-old Delhi Police official who holds four national records and has recently made a world record in calligraphy. One often blames one’s profession and untimely ...

Whenever people think of calligraphy, they always think, “Oh, it’s some sort of fancy writing.” Calligraphy, however, is not just about beautiful handwriting, the art goes much deeper than that. For ...

Syngman Rhee, the authoritarian president of South Korea throughout the 1950s, received his advanced degrees at Harvard and Princeton. But, in his youth (Rhee was born in 1875), he had a traditional ...