Complete Collection of Chinese Calligraphy, Volume 9

Author: Liu Zhengcheng, Editor-in-Chief
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Publishing Date: 1992-10-01
Features: The Complete Collection of Chinese Calligraphy spans from the Shang and Zhou dynasties to the contemporary era, comprising one hundred and eight volumes. The volumes are divided into two major categories: 1. Period-specific volumes; 2. Master calligraphers' volumes. Each volume is organized into ten major sections, with additional sections for seal carving, treatises, appendices, and supplements. The collection features high-quality reproductions of over thirty thousand masterpieces of Chinese calligraphy from all dynasties, preserved worldwide, along with over twenty million words of scholarly essays and annotations. Many of the illustrations are published for the first time. Each volume includes: biographical essays on calligraphers (or period-specific analyses), plate reproductions, calligraphers' theories on calligraphy, chronological tables of calligraphers, maps of calligraphers' life journeys, annotations and explanations of plate reproductions, 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 Pals' Studio Manuscripts 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 exceptional value for calligraphy experts, researchers, enthusiasts, and collectors.