As part of our series How To: Asia, our social media education coordinator Bliss Hou will teach the fine art of traditional brush calligraphy. Bliss will give a demonstration and then participants will have an opportunity to write their own Chinese characters.

Xiaoxu Hou, a social media education coordinator at the Asian Studies Center, recently graduate with her master’s degree in Foreign Language Education at the University of Pittsburgh. She has a broad range of interests, such as painting, music, and traveling, especially Chinese calligraphy. She has taught workshops on calligraphy most recently at the Carnegie Library and the Pitt Chinese Calligraphy Club.