1100 B.C.E.). Shang kings used these objects in important divination rituals ... Harrist, Robert, and Wen Fong. The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection. Princeton: ...

It is one of the objects from ‘the scholar’s table’. If you were a Chinese scholar in the middle ... brushes for calligraphy, a Bitong (a brush pot) to put your brushes in, and an ink ...

The endless iterations of the Orchid Pavilion preface are both an emblem of Chinese culture, and a lens through which China views its past. In imperial China, prowess with a brush was a mark of ...