Complete Collection of Chinese Calligraphy. 18, Three Kingdoms, Western and Eastern Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties. Wang Xizhi, Wang Xianzhi. 1

Author: Liu Zhengcheng
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: The Complete Collection of Chinese Calligraphy spans from the Shang and Zhou dynasties to the contemporary era, comprising a total of 108 volumes. The volumes are divided into two major categories: 1. Period-specific volumes; 2. Master calligrapher volumes. Each volume is organized into ten major sections based on the era, with additional sections for seal carving, treatises, appendices, and supplements. The collection meticulously prints over 30,000 exquisite calligraphic works from Chinese history preserved worldwide, along with more than 20 million words of academic papers and textual annotations. Many of the illustrations are published for the first time. Each volume includes: biographical essays on calligraphers (or period-specific discussions), plate illustrations, calligrapher’s theories on calligraphy, chronological tables of calligraphers, maps of calligraphers’ life trajectories, annotations and explanations of plate illustrations, and bibliographies. This book is not merely an artistic atlas but represents an unprecedented comprehensive, research, and introduction of China’s millennia-old traditional cultural art—calligraphy—by the contemporary Chinese calligraphy academic community since the Chunhua Gallery Cuts of the Song Dynasty and the Three Pines Hall Calligraphy Collection of the Qing Dynasty. Such a thorough, systematic, in-depth, and meticulous study of an art form is rare not only in China but also in the global academic world. This book holds exceptional value for calligraphy experts, researchers, enthusiasts, and collectors alike.