A fact from Yang Shoujing appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 December 2017 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Me neither. But I went on to translate it in French! You can find more on User:Zanhe.
Zanhe, if you read chinese fluently, could you find some of Yang/楊守敬's calligraphies online, especially the "Stele" style, and upload to Commons ?
Simple photographes of 2D artworks such as calligraphies from people died before 1947 are Public domain and can be uploaded to commons. --Yug(talk)21:14, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@EricCable and Yug: thanks for the encouragement. Comments like these are my greatest reward for writing the article. @Yug thanks for translating it into French. I've seen lots of his calligraphy on art websites, but most of them add annoying watermarks to the images. I know nothing about image processing so don't know how to get rid of them. -Zanhe (talk) 00:35, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Zanhe:, I have such skills to edit images with a single watermark. I've been largely involved with the WP:GL. If you somehow link and point to 3 images, I could edit and upload 1 to 3 of them within 2 weeks. Yug(talk)14:18, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
A. The prose is clear and concise, and the spelling and grammar are correct:
What's the "Stele School"? Made a minor edit. I think one says "fell out of fashion" rather than "became out of fashion".
Stele School (also called epigraphic school) is a school of Chinese calligraphy that attempts to revive the ancient style inscribed on Han dynasty steles. Unfortunately there's no article yet, but this article from The Met gives a good introduction in English. And I took up your suggestion and changed the text to "fell out of fashion". -Zanhe (talk) 21:43, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Guoxue.com is a major portal for Sinology (Guoxue = Sinology in Chinese), affiliated with Capital Normal University in Beijing. Not as good as peer-reviewed academic publications, but reliable enough by Wikipedia standards. -Zanhe (talk) 21:46, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
"As Japan was quickly westernizing during the Meiji Restoration, traditional Chinese and Japanese publications became out of fashion and were sold cheaply" is not supported by the source. Nor is the "Guyi congshu" sentence. Is it right that searching #4 does not yield the name "shoujing"? "He was considered a talented artist by famous Japanese calligraphers such as Miyajima Seiichiro, Kusakabe Meikaku, Iwaya Osamu, and Matsuda Sekka. Iwaya Osamu (巖谷修) and others bought hundreds of sheets of Yang's works. Yang wrote many essays on Stele School calligraphy, which were later published by Japanese scholars in two volumes, Ping bei ji (《評碑記》Record of stelae criticism) and Ping tie ji (《評帖記》Record of model-letters criticism)." also is not supported by the source.
They are supported by an academic source (Brown 2012), but please scroll down to pages 82 and 83 (as marked in notes). The Google books link points to the beginning of the chapter at p. 69. -Zanhe (talk) 21:51, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
"As Japan was quickly westernizing during the Meiji Restoration, traditional Chinese and Japanese publications became out of fashion and were sold cheaply" is a summary of the text on pp. 74-75: "The new disdain for Chinese studies, or Kangaku, created a windfall for foreigners" and "foreigners scooping up valuable Chinese and Japanese books for a pittance". I've removed "and Japanese" as the source also mentions interest in Japanese antiquities grew more significant. The "Guyi congshu" sentence is mentioned on p. 73 (last paragraph). "He was considered a talented artist by famous Japanese calligraphers such as Miyajima Seiichiro, Kusakabe Meikaku, Iwaya Osamu, and Matsuda Sekka. Iwaya Osamu (巖谷修) and others bought hundreds of sheets of Yang's works. Yang wrote many essays on Stele School calligraphy, which were later published by Japanese scholars in two volumes, Ping bei ji (《評碑記》Record of stelae criticism) and Ping tie ji (《評帖記》Record of model-letters criticism)." is on pp 81-82 (sorry it was mislabeled as 83 in notes, now fixed). -Zanhe (talk) 14:02, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
As for #4, the book Chinese cultural art treasures was published in Taiwan, which used the Wade-Giles spelling until switching to pinyin recently. Search "Shou-ching" and you'll find the info on p. 98. -Zanhe (talk) 22:53, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Interestingly, I've read dozens of sources about him, but none talks about his wife and children, and he left his manuscripts to his disciple Xiong Huizhen when he died. One source mentions his descendant (or heir) Yang Mianzhi, but it's unclear what their relationship was. Most likely he wasn't a son, because otherwise sources would simply say that. -Zanhe (talk) 22:18, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Do we know about the life of the author and publication dates?
Yang died in 1915, so all his works entered public domain on 1 January 1966 per Chinese copyright law (50 years after author's death). Publication dates are not relevant in this situation. -Zanhe (talk) 22:00, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
