Cong Qiang owns a small school supplies store in the port city of Tianjin. While one day preparing to renovate his store, Cong began cleaning up his storehouse and discovered several writing brushes ...

Start small, says Kazuko Kano, a master calligrapher and director of Japanese calligraphic arts at Seichou Karate. “First I teach basic strokes, simple Chinese characters,” says Kano, who also does ...