Aiming at offering an appreciation for the beauty of Chinese calligraphy, this book provides a general picture of the five kinds of scripts, namely seal script (zhuan), clerical script (li), regular script (kai), running script (xing) and cursive script (cao), each followed by some most notable works as illustrations.
Author Bio
Zhou Kexi graduated from the Mathematics department of Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He taught Riemannian geometry and began translating French literature in 1984.