Xiling Seal Art Society

Xiling Seal Art Society
Chinese西泠印社
Hanyu PinyinXīlíng Yìnshè

The Xiling Seal Art Society (Chinese: 西泠印社) is a Chinese arts organisation based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, PRC. It was founded in 1904 but, with antecedents dating back to the Ming and Qing dynasties, is one of China's most important traditional stone seal engraving associations.[1]

Alternative names

Other possible translations include the 'Xiling Seal Society', 'Hsi-ling Seal Society',[2] 'Xiling Seal Engraving Society'.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Yang, Xiaoneng; Hong, Zaixin; Gao, Tianmin (2010). Tracing the past, drawing the future: master ink painters in twentieth-century China. 5 Continents Editions. p. 114. ISBN 978-0937031339.
  2. ^ Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China (U.S.) (1980). Traditional and Contemporary Painting in China: A Report of the Visit of the Chinese Painting Delegation to the People's Republic of China. National Academies. p. 82.
  3. ^ Xiling Seal-engraving Society 105th Anniversary Serial Exhibitions
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