MiataDrivers - Brushes with Power: Modern Politics and the Chinese Art of Calligraphy
Richard Curt Kraus
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Brushes with Power: Modern Richard Curt Kraus epub Brushes with Power: Modern Richard Curt Kraus pdf download Brushes with Power: Modern Richard Curt Kraus pdf file Brushes with Power: Modern Richard Curt Kraus audiobook Brushes with Power: Modern Richard Curt Kraus book review Brushes with Power: Modern Richard Curt Kraus summary | #2113622 in Books | 1991-07-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.63 x5.98l,1.04 | File type: PDF | 220 pages||5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Love this book|By A Customer|This is a great book -- smart and funny. It's a very interesting analysis of how art and calligraphy are used to express leadership and exert power in Chinese culture. It may seem irrelevant to Westerners, but ask anyone from a calligraphic tradition about it, and they'll tell you how important it is. A great read with super pictures.From the Inside Flap|
"In Kraus's hands, the study of calligraphy becomes a metaphor for a much wider topic—the persistence of traditionalism in modern China. That traditionalism is obvious to anyone who has even a superficial knowledge of modern China
Chinese calligraphy has traditionally been an emblem of the ruling class and its authority. After a century of mass revolution, what is the fate of this elite art? Richard Kraus explores the relationship beween politics and the art of writing in China today to explicate the complex relationship between tradition and modernity in Chinese culture. His study draws upon a wide range of sources, from political documents, memoirs, and interviews with Chinese intellectuals...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Brushes with Power: Modern Politics and the Chinese Art of Calligraphy | Richard Curt Kraus. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
