Selected 2020 Summer Work

Summer 2020 is special. It is special for several reasons. This was the first, as well as the last time, I believe, for us to have Dartmouth ASCS 60.07 “Chinese Painting, Poetry, and Philosophy” course online. Here, we are pleased and proud to share our summer work:






The order of the above paintings is random. They are selected representative parts of our hard work. Of course, none of them is perfect. But who cares? Each of them presents one (or more) particular aspect(s) of writing poetic Chinese literati painting in the context of Chinese yinyang cosmology. This is what we care.

Summer Chinese Calligraphy and Painting at Dartmouth

We are approaching the end of the summer 2019 Chinese painting and calligraphy study with Prof. Xing at Dartmouth (ASCL 60.07 & 62.01). We never had enough time to discuss traditional Chinese calligraphy, painting, poetry, philosophy and religions in class.

It is amazing how much we have achieved in three-week training of writing Chinese ink-bamboo painting (ASCL 60.07) and six-week practice of all the major scripts in Chinese calligraphy (ASCL 62.01).


Prof. Xing says that there will be no surprise, as always, for him to see how amazing our final projects will be.

Chinese Mathematical Calligraphy: Dedicated to Prof. Li Xueqin

Prof. Xing’s calligraphy exhibition, “Chinese Mathematical Calligraphy: The Oracle-Bone Perspective, Dedicated to Professor Li Xueqin (1933-2019),” opened in Las Vegas in April 2019:

More details can be found on Prof. Xing’s website here.
This is Prof. Xing’s second exhibition of Chinese Mathematical Calligraphy. Click here for more detail of his first Mathematical Calligraphy exhibition.

Calligraphy in China

Classroom practice at BNU in Beijing, China.

Calligraphy trip to Confucius’s Temple, Qufu, Shandong Province on Friday, July 13, 2018.

Reading the Stele of Confucius’s Temple(至圣先师孔子庙碑).

Visiting the natural museum of Chinese calligraphy in Mountain Tai on Saturday, July 14, 2018.

Calligraphy Is a Special Game

Today our Beijing FSP participants had a “special game” and each of us received a great special gift–Prof. Deng Baojian 邓宝剑, Chair of the Calligraphy Department at BNU, delivered a wonderful talk on Chinese calligraphy, “Calligraphy Is a Special Game”:

In today’s special game, he kindly did each of us an amazing gift–our Chinese names in his beautiful calligraphy:


“Thank you, Prof. Deng, we love you!”