Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Light viewing: Chinese Calligrapgy, too.

We have seen the science magazine Max Planck Forschung taking Chinese calligraphy unscrupulously.
  • The texts say, "We have offered a lot of money to hire two managers -- KK and Jiamei  -- to lead the young girls during the day.  Our young girls are elegant northern beauties with attractive physiques.  We also have housewives who are coquettish and enchanting.  They are appearing here and now."


The Koreans did something similar as well, taking cool calligraphy more subtly. This is a screenshot from a Korean TV drama series, depicting the war between China and Koguryo in the 7th century. The picture shows the Chinese Emperor, Sui Yangdi, in front of a cool screen. The problem is that the writing on the screen is one of Mao's (perhaps most famous) poems,《沁园春•雪》 comparing himself to the great emperors of the past, among them the Tang Emperor who had later replaced the character in front of this screen.


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