Video ebooks:
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Learn Chinese Calligraphy: Instructional Videos on Scribing the Standard Script (Vol. 1)
ISBN 978-1-989485-28-6
The Learn Chinese Calligraphy series, divided into three parts, features Dr Kwok Kin Poon’s instructional videos on Chinese calligraphy, voiced over in English by KS Vincent Poon. The entire series, accompanied by worksheets and exercises, focuses on the fundamental techniques in scribing the standard, cursive, semi-cursive, and cursive scripts (楷草篆隸筆法).
The three parts are: Instructional Videos on Scribing the Standard Script, Instructional Videos on Scribing the Cursive Script, and Instructional Videos on Scribing the Seal and Clerical Scripts.
This ebook is the first of five volumes of Instructional Videos on Scribing the Standard Script, consisting of videos 1 to 5 of the 36 videos on scribing the standard script. The thesis of this volume is on holding the brush, selecting the brush, paper, ink, and inkstone, as well as introducing and demonstrating “The Eight Principles from Scribings Wing (The Eight Principles of Yong, 永字八法)”. There are five videos in this volume, with a total time of 34 min 53 sec.
EBOOK: 
Video demonstrations:
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"Blessed"
(福)
80 X 69cm in Cursive Script (草書):
Description:
- Live recording of Vincent Poon writing a fairly large character, "Blessed (福)", on gold laced paper.
- Narrated by my father Kwok Kin Poon in Cantonese.
- Recorded in August, 2013, Toronto, Canada.
- Full display and details of the work can be seen here.
- Full Video clip including my father's demonstration can be viewed here.
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"Passions changed along with the new circumstances, lamentations (感慨) would surely associate with it indeed"
(情隨事遷，感慨係之矣)
33X18 cm in Semi-cursive Script (行書):
Description:
- Live recording of Vincent Poon writing an excerpt from the renowned Lanting Xu, which was originally written by Wang Xizhi (王羲之).
- O mio babbino caro is used here as an attempt to merge relevant classical music into the visual beauty of Chinese calligraphy.
- Postscript comment of the video is "In this world, what is love (romantic) and affection?" (問世間，情是何物？) extracted from Yuan Haowen (元好問) 's Qiu Yan Ci《雁丘詞》.
- Recorded in September, 2013, Toronto, Canada.
- Background music extracted from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-pPe1ExGVE.
- Full display and details of Lanting Xu can be seen here.
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"The delights we once enjoyed disappear in split seconds and shall then all become traces of the distant past"
(向之所欣，俛仰之間，以(已)為陳迹)
33X18 cm in Semi-cursive Script (行書):
Description:
- Live recording of Vincent Poon writing an excerpt from the renowned Lanting Xu , which was originally written by Wang Xizhi (王羲之).
- Habanera in Carmen by George Bizet is used here as an attempt to merge relevant classical music into the visual beauty of Chinese calligraphy.
- Postscript comment of the video is "Ultimately, everything turns into nothingness" (畢竟總成空) extracted from Wei Han Zhang (韋瀚章)'s lyrics to the song《長恨歌•山在虛無飄緲間》.
- Recorded in September, 2013, Toronto, Canada.
- Background music extracted from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-KXAULqz80.
- Full display and details of Lanting Xu can be seen here.
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"The wise from the past once said: "after all, birth and death are so immensely important!"- So how can we not be agonized about them?"
(古人云，死生亦大矣， 豈不痛哉!)
33X18 cm in Semi-cursive Script (行書):
Description:
- Live recording of Vincent Poon writing an excerpt from the renowned Lanting Xu , which was originally written by Wang Xizhi (王羲之).
- Amazing Grace by John Newton is used here as an attempt to merge relevant classical music into the visual beauty of Chinese calligraphy.
- Postscript comment of the video is "We shall meet again in our Heavenly Eternal Home" (緣續天鄉).
- Recorded in September, 2013, Toronto, Canada, in memory of Nora Tsang, who was my mother.
- Background music licensed by Audiojungle.
- Full display and details of Lanting Xu can be seen here.
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