Wang Ruchang - Representative Calligrapher Series Works Collection

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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: Wang Ruchang (1909-1989), a historian and calligrapher. His courtesy name was Yuanzhong, and his other names included Mingliang, Dilu, and Xinxin Laoren. He was from Jiaxing, Zhejiang. In 1920, he entered Wuxi Guoxue College and was taught by Tang Wenhui. He graduated from Wuxi Guoxueyuan and taught at institutions such as Wuxi Zhuanshu College, Fudan University, Daxia University, and Jiao Tong University before the liberation. In the early years of the liberation, he served as the vice president of Wuxi Chinese College. After 1952, he became a professor at the Chinese Department and the Philosophy Department of Fudan University. In calligraphy, he learned from Shen Zengzhi and was proficient in the grass script of the "Two Wangs" in his early years. Later, he specialized in Northern Stele and Han bamboo slips, and in his later years, he was renowned for his Cangcao (rhetorical grass script). He was praised as "There was Wang Xizhi in the past, and there is Wang Ruchang now." He also served as an advisor to the China Calligraphy Association. He once said, "Couplets are a unique form of art in China and have a wide range of uses. To promote them, I have forgotten my advanced age and dared to exert my limited abilities as a pioneer, without caring about whether my work is good or bad." His major works include: Essentials of the Schools of the Hundred Schools of Thought, Inquiries on the Works of the Hundred Schools of Thought in Pre-Qin Period, Biography of Yan Jidao, Biography of Shen Meisou, Compendium of Shang Dynasty Classics, Compendium of Shang Dynasty History, History of National Humiliation, Collected Poems of Gu Tinglin, Selected Poems and Prose of Liang Qichao, and others.