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Susan is one of Britain’s leading calligraphers, known both for her traditional skills in writing with quills on vellum and for her innovative use of the Chinese brush as a writing tool. Her formative years as a calligrapher were spent in Hong Kong, where she developed her passion for Chinese art and language. Susan also paints in oils, watercolours and ink, sometimes combining painting with calligraphy in the tradition of Chinese art.

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The Chinese Book II

Susan Leiper on Chinese book format

In Issue 1, I described the tradition in Chinese books of placing an illustration above a solid block of text on each page, a tradition that I set out to revive in my Chinese cookery manual.

The Chinese Book

Susan Leiper on Chinese book format

Following the dictum of the famous German calligrapher Friedrich Neugebauer, that ‘the ideal manuscript book would be made by one person, acting as author, scribe, illuminator and binder’, Susan set out to compose, write, illustrate and bind a Chinese cookery manual, covering the principal ingredients of fish and seafood, meat and poultry, vegetables, carbohydrates and desserts. Each ingredient is illustrated [in] a solid block of text.

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