A 95-minute bidding war would have made headlines even when the Hong Kong auction market was at its frothiest a decade ago, so a recent protracted battle over a 14th century Chinese calligraphy ...

At Sotheby’s branch in the city, the seven-century-old Calligraphy in Cursive Script by Rao Jie sparked ... It sold for $32 million, a new record for Chinese calligraphy at Sotheby’s Other ...

After setting a new house record for Chinese calligraphy last month ... The 700-year-old cursive-script piece by Rao Jie that set a record for Sotheby’s in April, when it sold for $32 million ...

Besides the xing shu, the other types of Chinese calligraphy are zhuan shu (seal script), li shu (clerical script), kai shu (regular script) and cao shu (cursive script).

[Photo provided to China Daily] In the spring of 2019, upon his departure to Shaoxing in East China's Zhejiang province, Italian Sinologist Pietro De Laurentis explained to his mother that he was ...

calligraphy demonstrations, and hashtags like #penmanship, #cursive, or even #penlife, all awash with photos of impeccable handwriting in high-end ink. For centuries, writing was the realm of the ...

31 x 53.5 cm. (12.2 x 21.1 in.) ...

In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person's signature. Educators often have trouble finding enough time in the school day to ...

In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature. Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago.

23.8 x 275.8 cm. (9.4 x 108.6 in.) ...