Xing Wen 邢文 (Dartmouth College)
Introduction: History in Calligraphy and Manuscript Culture:
Significance of the Twenty-Four Histories with Mao’s Commentaries
书法与手稿文化中的历史：毛泽东评点《二十四史》的意义

Chen Chuanxi 陈传席 (Renmin University of China)
Mao Zedong (1893-1976) and the Twenty-Four Histories
毛泽东与《二十四史》

Han Ding 韩鼎 (Henan University)
Manuscripts and State of Mind: A Perspective of Yan Zhenqing’s (705-
784) Manuscript of “Eulogy for the Nephew”
手稿与心绪：颜真卿（705-784）《祭侄稿》的视角

12:00 – 14:00 PM, Friday, 24 October 2014
Haldeman Conference Room 125

“Three Perfections” Starts from Classical Chinese Poetry

Posted on October 19, 2014 by Wen Xing

To be good at classical Chinese poetry, calligraphy, and traditional Chinese painting, i.e., shi 诗, shu 书, and hua 画, has been the goal of traditional Chinese literati for nearly two thousand years. Poetry, the systematic training of which had started around the 6th century B.C.E. in China, is the first of the “Three Perfections,” sanjue 三绝. The DAMELL and Project for Calligraphy and Manuscript Culture offer regular courses on all the three of them at Dartmouth, i.e., CH 54, CH 62.01, CH 63.01 and CH 82. Well trained in classical Chinese poetry, Prof. Chuanxi Chen (PhD in Classical Chinese Literature) authored two anthologies of classical Chinese poetry, Liaoyan 了言 and Huanjian 还剑, before he concentrated on Chinese art history. Prof. Chen is invited to visit CH 54 “Classical Chinese Poetry” to give a talk and demonstration of drafting classical Chinese poems with traditional Chinese ink and brush during 11:00 AM to 11:50 AM, Thursday, October 23, 2014. Below are Prof. Chen’s poems, calligraphy and painting.

History in Calligraphy and Manuscript Culture

Posted on October 18, 2014 by Wen Xing

Project for Calligraphy and Manuscript Culture Workshop # 3
书法与手稿文化系列研讨会之三

History in Calligraphy and Manuscript Culture:
Significances of the Twenty-Four Histories with Mao’s Commentaries
书法与手稿文化中的历史：毛泽东评点《二十四史》的意义

Led by Profs. Xing Wen 邢文 & Chen Chuanxi 陈传席

Co-sponsored by Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures &
Project for Calligraphy and Manuscript Culture

12:00 – 14:00 PM, Friday, 24 October 2014

Haldeman Conference Room 125, Dartmouth College

Pre-workshop Talk:
The Calligraphy and Manuscript Art of Mao Zedong (1893-1976) 毛泽东书法与手稿艺术, 4:15-6:00 PM, Thursday, October 23, 2014, 104 Wilder Hall

Friday lunch will be provided. Registration is required.
Registration due by 8:00 AM, Wednesday, October 22: Wen.Xing@Dartmouth.EDU

Chen Kicks Off the 24 Histories Project at Dartmouth

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Wen Xing

Prof. Chen Chuanxi’s lecture on Thursday, October 23 will mark the beginning of the multi-year student-faculty project to transcribe and translate Mao’s handwritten commentaries on the longest continuous history in the world, the Twenty-Four Histories. Dartmouth students who are interested in participating in this project are encouraged to contact Prof. Xing at Wen.Xing@Dartmouth.EDU.

Poster Designed by Yukari Itsuki

Mao’s Calligraphy and Manuscript Art

Posted on October 11, 2014 by Wen Xing

The Project for Calligraphy and Manuscript Culture at Dartmouth College is sponsoring a multi-year student-faculty project to transcribe and translate Mao’s commentary manuscripts in his stylistic calligraphy written on the margins of the 850 volumes of China’s official Twenty-four Histories 毛泽东评点二十四史. As one of the most influential art critics and art historians, Prof. Chen Chuanxi 陈传席, Chair Professor of Renmin University of China, will comment on Mao’s calligraphy and manuscript art thus provide a critical context for the Twenty-Four Histories project at Dartmouth.

陈传席教授讲

毛泽东书法与手稿艺术

Thursday, October 23, 2014
4:15pm-6:00pm
104 Wilder Hall