Calligraphy Bibliography (19th to 21st-century China) in progress

Bai, Qianshen. 1999. “The Artistic and Intellectual Aspects of Chinese Calligraphy Rubbings: Some Examples from the Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth.” Orientations 30, no. 3 (March): 82–88.

Bai, Qianshen. 20001. “From Wu Dacheng to Mao Zedong: The Transformation of Chinese Calligraphy in the Twentieth Century.” In Chinese Art: Modern Expressions, edited by Maxwell K. Hearn and Judith G. Smith, 246–283. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Bai, Qianshen. 2007. “Chinese Calligraphy in the Mid to Late Qing and Republic Period (1850–1950).” In New Songs on Ancient Tunes: 19th-20th Century Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy from the Richard Fabian Collection, edited by Stephen Little et al., 66–79. Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts.

Bai, Qianshen. 2007. “From Composite Rubbing to Picture of Antiques and Flowers (Bogu huahui): The Case of Wu Yun.” Orientations vol. 38, no. 3 (April): 52–60.

Bai, Qianshen. 2010. “Composite Rubbings in Nineteenth-Century China: The Case of Wu Dacheng (1835–1902) and His Friends.” In Reinventing the Past: Archaism and Antiquarianism in Chinese Art and Visual Culture, edited by Wu Hung, 291–319. Chicago: Paragon Books.

Bai, Qianshen. 2016. "Rubbing Workers in Late-Qing Intellectual Life." In Chinese Studies in the Globle Age: New Topics, New Methods, and New Perspectives, edited by Xin Ning, Dietrich Tschanz, and Ching-I Tu, 81–104. NewJersey: Confucius Institute of Rutgers University.

Bai, Qianshen. 2016. “Calligraphy.” In A Companion to Chinese Art, ed. Martin J. Powers and Katherine R. Tsiang, 312–328. Part of the Wiley Blackwell Companion to Art History. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Chen Yafei 陳雅飛. 2005. “Xianggang zaoqi shufa: yi wenhua wei shijiao” 香港早期書法:以文化為視角. In Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2004, edited by Harold Mok, 42–63. Hong Kong: Department of Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Cheung, Chris. 2020. “I No Longer Write – Mochiji.” https://vimeo.com/406793526

Chizhova, Ksenia. 2018. "Bodies of Texts: Women Calligraphers and the Elite Vernacular Culture in Late Chosŏn Korea 1392–1910." The Journal of Asian Studies 77 (1): 59–81.

Chizhova, Ksenia. 2022. “North Korean Calligraphy: Gender, Intimacy, and Political Incorporation, 1980s–2010s." Journal of Korean Studies 27 (2): 275–304.

Chung, Wai Ching Bryan. 2016. “Matching Chinese calligraphy to fighting sequences – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gThM8TnLHRQ.

Hay, Jonathan. 2010. Sensuous Surfaces: The Decorative Object in Early Modern China. University of Hawaii Press.

Kraus, Richard Curt. 1991. Brushes with Power: Modern Politics and the Chinese Art of Calligraphy. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Lau, Chak Kwong. 2013. “Early–Twentieth–Century Hong Kong Culture: The Arts of Calligraphy and Painting” 二十世紀初香港文化掃描 —書畫藝術. In A Survey of Regional Cultures in China: The Volume of Hong Kong Chinese, Simplified Character Edition《中國地域文化通覽‧香港卷》, edited by Wang Guohua 王國華, 507–516. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju.

Lau, Chak Kwong. 2017. “In Search of Identity: Chinese Calligraphy in Twentieth–Century Hong Kong.” The International Journal of Arts Theory and History 12 (1): 11–47.

Liu, Cary Y. 1999. “Calligraphic Couplets as Manifestations of Deities and Markers of Buildings.” In The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection. Princeton, NJ: Art Museum, Princeton University, and New York: in association with Harry N. Abrams.

Mirra, Federica. 2024. “Water calligraphy: A living aesthetics in China’s south-western cities.” Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 11, no. 1 (April): 51–74.

Mok, Harold 莫家良. 2006. “From the Traditional to the Modern: Thoughts on Calligraphy in Hong Kong Art Biennials” 從傳統到現代──香港藝術雙年展書法的思考 bilingual. In the Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2005 香港視覺藝術年鑑 2005, 63–99. Hong Kong: Department of Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Shaw, Jeffrey. 2017. “New Media and the Art of Chinese Calligraphy: Wang Dongling’s performance of Chinese Calligraphy at the City University.” Source: https://www.jeffreyshawcompendium.com/curation/sincerely–yours/

Sturman, Peter. 1998. “Calligraphy.” China 5000 Years: Innovation and Transformation in the Arts, 159-70. New York: The Guggenheim Museum.

Sturman, Peter. 2007. “Primordiality and Other Essentialisms: Modernists and the Media in the China Diaspora.” The Third Chengdu Biennale, International Symposium, 58–65. Chengdu: Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum.

Sturman, Peter. 2009. “Calligraphy.” Encyclopedia of Modern China, 1: 164–66. Charles Scribners and Sons.

Tang Hoi–chiu 鄧海超 and Szeto Yuen-kit 司徒元傑. 1990. Hong Kong Calligraphy: Collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art 香港書法:香港藝術館藏品. Hong Kong: Urban Council.

Zhang Huiyi 張惠儀. 2002. “Minguo shiqi yilao shufa yanjiu” 民國時期遺老書法硏究 Ph.D. dissertation, Chinese University of Hong Kong.