Complete Collection of Chinese Calligraphy 6: Reading Bamboo Slips and Silk Manuscripts of the Qin and Han Dynasties

Author: Liu Zhengcheng (Editor-in-Chief) / Wo Xinghua (Editor)
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Publishing Date: 1997-10-01
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, with additional sections for seal carving, essays, appendices, and supplementary materials. The collection meticulously prints over 30,000 exquisite calligraphic works from Chinese history preserved worldwide, along with more than 20 million words of scholarly essays and textual annotations. Many of the illustrations are published for the first time. Each volume includes: biographical essays on calligraphers (or period-specific discussions), illustrations, calligrapher’s theories on calligraphy, chronological tables of calligraphers, maps of calligraphers’ life journeys, annotations and explanations of illustrations, and bibliographies. This book is not merely an artistic atlas but represents an unprecedented comprehensive, research, and introduction to the millennia-old traditional Chinese cultural art of calligraphy, following the Chunhua Gallery Cuts of the Song Dynasty and the Three Rare Rooms 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 community. This book holds immense value for calligraphy experts, researchers, enthusiasts, and collectors alike.