Brushes with Power: Modern Politics and the Chinese Art of Calligraphy by Richard Curt Kraus

Brushes with Power: Modern Politics and the Chinese Art of Calligraphy

Richard Curt Kraus

220 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative slow-paced
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Chinese calligraphy has traditionally been an emblem of the ruling class and its authority. After a century of mass revolution, what is the fate of this elite art? Richard Kraus explores the relationship beween politics and the art of writing in C...

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