Fu Shan's World: The Transformation of Chinese Calligraphy in the Seventeenth Century

by Qianshen Bai

For 1,300 years, Chinese calligraphy was based on the elegant art of Wang Xizhi (A.D. 303-361). But the seventeenth-century emergence of a style modeled on the rough, broken epigraphs of ancient bronzes and stone artifacts brought a revolution in calligraphic taste. By the eighteenth century, this led to the formation of the stele school of calligraphy, which continues to shape Chinese calligraphy today.

A dominant force in this school was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674010922
• ISBN13: 9780674010925
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.8" x 11.2"