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Article: Amy McNair. The Upright Brush: Yan Zhenqing's Calligraphy and Song Literati Politics.(Book Review)
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- China Review International
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- March 22, 2002
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Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. 180 pp. Hardcover $49.00, ISBN 0-8248-1922-5. Paperback $27.95, ISBN 0-8248-2002-9.
Amy McNair's The Upright Brush: Yan Zhenqing's Calligraphy and Song Literati Politics is a well-researched and original analysis of the relationship between calligraphy and politics. The nominal subject of this book is the cultural legend Yan Zhenqing (709-785) of the Tang dynasty (618-907), but the author pays more attention to his influence on the literati of the Song dynasty (960-1279), about two hundred years after Yan's era. In her book, McNair argues that the later literati respected Yan as an exemplar in calligraphy not only ...