In Chinese calligraphy, the white space (空白 kōng bái) is as important as the ink. It reflects the Daoist concept of emptiness ...

Around AD 300 the Chinese developed a solid ink that could be stored as a stick or cake. When you wanted to do some writing, you shaved some ink off the stick and mixed it with water.

Calligraphy, literally "beautiful writing," has been appreciated as an art form in many different cultures throughout the world, but the stature of calligraphy in Chinese culture is unmatched. In ...

PocketBook’s first Android 11 e-note tablet does a couple of features to commend it, but it needs to do a lot better than the ...

A man in eastern China is suspected of fraud after he allegedly signed an IOU for a loan for 110,000 yuan (HK$126,135) using ink that quickly faded, mainland media reports. The man, surnamed Ru ...

Chinese researchers have engineered a new type of liquid metal ink that can be used to draw electrical circuits with a simple ballpoint pen. The scientists prepared the ink by combining the metals ...

Ink-redible! Chinese woman who can write with BOTH hands at the SAME TIME in different languages. ... Ambidextrous: The 24-year-old can write Chinese with one hand while doing English with the other.

For Shen Heyun, owner of Side Ink Brush Workshop, the increased international interest in Chinese classics and culture, and the building of Confucius Institutes worldwide are good opportunities for ...

According to Chinese lore, "ink monkeys" were an itty-bitty variety of primate trained to mix ink, ... (No adorable ink monkeys swung out of the forest to assist in writing up the team's findings, ...