About the Author

Wendan Li is associate professor of Chinese language and linguistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Reviews

If it is the case that every extended program of Chinese Studies should offer a course on the history and practice of calligraphy, so critical traditionally was the art in cultural terms, then the book under review is probably the ideal textbook. . . . [It is] an approachable and engaging introduction to the 'Way of Writing.' Informed by much of the best recent scholarship in Chinese and English in the field, the book is nonetheless written in a manner that would make it appropriate for students studying Chinese both in their final years at high school and in their early undergraduate years at university.-- "New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies"