Dedication This dissertation is dedicated to the memories of my beloved grandfather, Fengzhi Wu, who passed away in the year 2000. He was an outstanding artist in Chinese calligraphy. His righteous and generous personality as also demonstrated in his artworks affected me and numerous others. He was an honorable man and a lovely grandfather.

In the rongorongo script we encounter many anthropomorphic glyphs with an enlarged body and a hole in the belly. Based primarily on structural evidence present in parallel passages, it is argued that hollow-belly glyphs are in fact a compact form of two normal-belly single anthropomorphic glyphs. The scriptural evolution from two single-body glyphs into one double-body glyph was gradual and its...

Chinese calligraphy is an ancient character writing art. It germinated in the Shang Dynasty, reached its peak Tang and did not form a new style for more than one thousand years. There are many similarities between western painting, including abstraction symbolism. When country went through modernization of 20th century, influence gradually increased, art formed forms such as hard pen calligraph...

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An important cultural heritage is located in the Chinese providence of Sichuan: about 1000 years ago, Buddhist stone inscriptions have been carved into rock – the Stone Sutras. Archiving the current state of the inscriptions, their transcription and translation into digital assets, their interpretation and provision to the public and scientific community are of a major interest to an interdisci...