Yan: Art and the Shanghai Expo

Calligraphy master replicates Hu Jintao's welcome speech

Four years after the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, the memory of the grand event is still alive thanks to tangible reminders like architecture and documents.

Yan Gongda, vice-president of Chinese Calligraphers Association and professor at two universities, replicated the expo welcoming speech by Hu Jintao, then president of China, in cursive script calligraphy.