Calligraphy And Power In Contemporary Chinese Society
\ Yuehping Yen
London, New York
: Routledge
, 2005
viii, 221p.
: ill.
(Anthropology of Asia series)
Code E.Book: 10067
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Introduction : the abode of calligraphic inscriptions -- 1. Dances with power : public calligraphy and its social effects -- 2. Becoming a person through wen -- 3. Handwriting and personhood -- 4. Body-person engineering through ink and brush : brush techniques and calligraphic composition -- 5. Brush work : alternative bodybuilding -- 6. Ideograms and knowledge -- 7. Characters reloaded.