My parents are ethnically Chinese ... brush to paper; and if it is to work, you must (here, I blush) leave a trace of yourself in it. In calligraphy, the idea is to replicate the old masters ...

Lucy Jiayun Zhang, a fourth-year theater student and co-founder, said club members typically practice calligraphy by copying old works ... middle school and felt disconnected from Chinese culture ...

Calligraphy, literally "beautiful ... during the Han dynasty (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.), when Chinese artisans perfected the manufacture of the basic materials still used by calligraphers today: brush, ink ...