"Everyday when I go out, I bring an iPad and an Apple Pencil with me," said Chang Ping-huang, a renowned calligrapher from Taiwan, when introducing his new toolkit for practicing Chinese calligraphy.

A 49-year-old Argentine artist Martin Mazia has been learning Chinese painting and calligraphy for 17 years without ever setting foot in China. Although he stumbles on Chinese, Martin is good at the ...

One of the things about China that foreigners find most fascinating and mystifying is Chinese characters, hanzi. The thousands of ideograms are beautiful and completely different from what an ...

NEW YORK – Large public exhibits of ancient Chinese calligraphy are rare in the United States, as are major shows that can be appreciated by kids as well as adults, novices as well as experts. "Out of ...

Debate rages over how much of traditional brushstroke writing will be inherited by a younger generation that uses technology to write Zhou Qing holds a brush in one hand as she gestures with the other ...

Some students in Myanmar have spent much of the summer vacation learning Chinese calligraphy at the China Cultural Center in Yangon. Myintzu Theint, 25, has been learning brush calligraphy at the ...

On Sept. 28, the famed calligrapher and educator Tian Yingzhang died at the age of 74. Arguably the best-known calligrapher in contemporary China, millions of Chinese learned Tian’s calligraphy style ...

When Canadian media artist Nicholas Hanna first moved to the Chinese city of Beijing, he was quite taken with the water calligraphy that he saw people creating in the parks. The art form consists of ...

Kicking off a goodwill visit focused on cultural diplomacy, first lady Michelle Obama joined her Chinese counterpart to tour a school in Beijing on Friday and try her hand at some table tennis and ...

Schools in China have been told to run more classes in calligraphy because computer use and text-messaging are ruining children's writing style. Younger students should have classes every week ...