For many, Chinese calligraphy is the world's most favorable form of art. I can remember the time when I was a preschooler, my grandfather, Chen Teh Tseng, had taken me to one of his home residences at ...

SOME 300 undergraduates and school students tried their hand in Chinese and Islamic calligraphy during the Art of Chinese Calligraphy and Khat Sharing Workshop on Wednesday. The event was held from ...

The beautiful saying of Hazrat Ali Bin Abi Talib (AS), the fourth caliph of Islam, reads as “the beauty of writing is the tongue of the hand and the elegance of thought.” Another famous saying which ...

Bee Bee Laisa, a final year Engineering student in Bengaluru, has a dream. The 24-year-old wants to transcribe a copy of the Koran in Arabic. “I have always been interested in art and drawing, but it ...

As a young boy in Taiwan, Jerry Yang was forced to study calligraphy — writing Chinese characters with a brush. The practice is thought to mold character as well as to reflect it, but Yang found it a ...

A performance is staged to celebrate the opening of the "The Historical Expression of Chinese Art: Calligraphy and Painting from the National Museum of China" exhibition at the National Museum of ...

Calligraphy, literally "beautiful writing," has been appreciated as an art form in many different cultures throughout the world, but the stature of calligraphy in Chinese culture is unmatched. In ...