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The calligraphy on the banner, adapted from a Chinese ink rubbing,
is by Mi Fu (1051-1107), one of the great Song dynasty masters.
The two characters read fu floating & chai (zhai in pin-yin) which means studio or retreat.

The calligraphy on the banner, adapted from a Chinese ink rubbing, is by Mi Fu (1051-1107), one of the great Song dynasty masters. The two characters read fu floating & chai which means studio or retreat.
Hence: Floating Studio.
Last updated 15 May 2009
Next update mid September 2009

 

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1490-1890
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Calligraphy Composition No. 12. © 2007 Olivier Burckhardt

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To listen to the author give a brief introduction and a full reading of

Migrant Tongue: Battos in Australia

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Total time: 17.6 minutes

The above recording was presented at the
International Conference

Refashioning Myth:
Poetic Transformations & Metamorphoses

 2 – 3 October 2008, The University of Melbourne, Australia

 Session 5
Journey & Place
(3 October 2008, 2 -3.30 pm)

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Addittional matarial, including resource material on East-West poetics, will be added to this page at regular intervals.