The Chinese Calligraphy Department
Professor: Yang Suoqiang，Yang Xiaoping
The currently total number of the teachers in the department is eight, with two professors, four associate professors, one doctoral tutor and four master tutors among the rest.
The Main Research Field: Chinese Calligraphy & Traditional Chinese Culture, Ecology Environment of Calligraphy, Calligraphy Aesthetics, Metal & Stone Calligraphy, etc.
Department of Chinese Calligraphy, School of Humanity &Social Science, Xi’an Jiaotong University was founded by Prof. Zhong Mingshan, a famous calligrapher and the former advisor of Chinese Calligrapher Association. In 2005, undergraduate students were formally enrolled, and the department was established independently in 2008. Now it has the right to grant a Bachelor Degree in Art (Calligraphy Direction) and a Master Degree in Design (Calligraphy Direction), as well as Ph. D. in Philosophy (Aesthetics Direction).
The Department upholds the concept that “rooting in traditional culture, attaching importance to both skill training and theory researching, guiding by the concept of 'New Liberal Arts', supporting by multiple disciplines and insisting the school concept of collaborative training“, with the intersection of calligraphy and cultural industry, calligraphy and archaeology as the focus. The creative concept of "Calligraphy Ethics & Art Ecology", which is initiated and runs through teaching and practicing, has formed distinctive characteristics after years of exploration. In addition to undertaking the teaching tasks that include professional courses and general courses, the teachers have presided over scientific research projects at all levels, published papers and monographs, participated in important competitions and had achieved fruitful results. The department was approved as “Provincial First-class Undergraduate Major” in 2021 and "National First-class Undergraduate Major" in 2022 and had achieved A Degree in China Soft Science Ranking. In 2014, the department was named Excellent Teaching Team of Shaanxi Province.
The Department of Chinese Calligraphy aims to cultivate students with a wide range of cultural insights, deep artistic quality and excellent professional theory and art skills, who are able to do art creating, researching， teaching， startling originality and communicating works in academic environment, enterprises and other departments. These compound professionals have a sound personality, strong sense of social responsibility and broad vision and can play a leading role in the future calligraphy related fields.
