The Twelfth International Symposium of Hanzi Shufa Education, hosted by the American Society of Shufa Calligraphy Education (ASSCE), was held successfully via Zoom on July 16th and 17th, 2021. More than 30 shufa educators and student teachers from Mainland China, Taiwan, Slovak, Uzbek, France, Japan, and other countries made presentations in this symposium. A total of five university shufa professors were invited as keynote speakers. They were Profs. Baojian Deng, Jyh-sheng Chen, Shuqiang Cui, Peter Kocak, and Xinshi Tu. The keynote speakers reported their most recent research findings and shared their impressive experiences in shufa practice and teaching. In their presentations, Profs. Kai Li, Ying Liu, and Xinshi Tu made a thorough review of the early history of ASSCE and the success of this organization. They encouraged shufa educators to join together for the advancement of the shufa education with their utmost. Other presenters shared their effective teaching approaches and fantastic student work through videos, pictures, and rich documents. In addition to the symposium, ASSCE also hosted a shufa work exhibition, where more than 120 shufa works were included. The authors of the shufa works were professional calligraphers, educators, and students. Around 320 people from many countries attended the symposium and had great interactions with the presenters.
Keynote Speaker, Prof. Baojian Deng (Beijing Normal University), making his presentation on Calligraphy practice in this new era
Keynote Speaker, Dr. Jyh-sheng Chen (National Chin-Yi University of Technology) and his beautiful handwritten outline of the presentation on the spread of Shufa in East Asian countries
Keynote Speaker, Prof. Peter Kocak (Presov University), reviewing his passion for Shufa calligraphy and his daily practice in the past ten years
Dr. Yunying Lin (Chinese Jiaguwen Association) sharing Doubei Huang’s creative calligraphy work
Ms. Hannah Hao (Qingdao University) demonstrating some of the activities and games she used in her calligraphy class
Prof. Ying Liu (National Taichung University of Education) introducing students’ works of character stamps
Ms. Li Li (Notre Dame Academy) introducing one of her class projects—writing “愛” in golden ink on red rice paper
Prof. Pengfei Li (Vanderbilt University) introducing his equipment and settings for his virtual calligraphy classes
Mr. Eagle Cui (Zhejiang University) introducing Shufa calligraphy fan project
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