English has the art of calligraphy, and its fonts are Italian, handwritten, Roman, Ansel, Gothic and copperplate. Introduction to English Calligraphy: The English copybook published by 1993 (hereinafter referred to as copybook) has been reprinted, revised and republished for 20 years, with hundreds of thousands of copies printed, which has been deeply loved by readers. We thank the readers, who have endowed the copybook with such great vitality. We are glad that our artistic ideas have been recognized by readers, and more people are beginning to pay attention to English writing teaching in China. This is undoubtedly a good thing, and we are very pleased to do something to improve the national cultural literacy. About the author: Min Zhiping is a senior English teacher in Nanjing No.3 Middle School, a key middle school in Jiangsu Province, and Zhu is a senior English teacher in Nanjing No.13 Middle School, a national model high school. Both of them are members of Jiangsu Hard Pen Calligraphy Association. He won the prize in the 1989 National Hard Pen Calligraphy Competition and was selected into the Dictionary of Hard Pen Calligraphers in China. They studied under Professor Yang Zun of Nanjing Normal University, benefited from her rigorous, practical and exquisite teaching style and superb calligraphy skills, and paid early attention to foreign English calligraphy research in combination with years of teaching practice.
They learned about the research trends of English calligraphy and writing teaching in Europe and America from Memories of the Academy and Chan+Augua Circuits, Writing Manual of Latinate Letters, Art of Case Analysis, Manuscripts of Personal Letters and Complete Calligraphers, and received selfless help from Mr. Zhu Qinghua of Nanjing University, Dr. Peter Mukesh, an American scholar, and Dr. Dennis Jeffroy, a Canadian friend. Based on the current situation of English writing teaching in China, he has published articles in English Pictorial and English Coach, and has written and published 20 Yu Ben books and various versions of Practical English Calligraphy, English Round, Italian, Handwritten Print and English Calligraphy Model for Jiangsu Education Press, Yilin Press, Beijing University of Technology Press, Shao Zhong Society and FLTRP.