Character & context in Chinese calligraphy / [edited by] Cary Y. Liu, Dora C.Y. Ching, and Judith G. Smith.

"Papers prepared for an international symposium organized by the Art Museum, Princeton University, in conjunction with the exhibition "The embodied image: Chinese calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Calligraphy, the sacred text and test of culture / Michael Nylan -- Calligraphy of stone engravings in Northern Wei Loyang / Huiwen Lu -- The history and revival of Northern Wei Stele-style calligraphy / Hua Rende -- The taming of the shrew : Wang Hsi-chih (303-361) and calligraphic gentrification in the seventh century / Eugene Y. Wang -- Seal and clerical scripts of the Sung Dynasty / Harold Mok -- Wine and cursive : the limits of individualism in Northern Sung China / Peter C. Sturman -- The strange, the new, and the orthodox : calligraphy of the Ch’an Monk Chung-feng Ming-pen (1262-1323) / Uta Lauer -- Calligraphy as gift : Wen Cheng-ming’s (1470-1559) calligraphy and the formation of Soochow literati culture / Shih Shou-ch’ien.