Chinese calligraphy in touch-screen age

Debate rages over how much of traditional brushstroke writing will be inherited by a younger generation that uses technology to write

Zhou Qing holds a brush in one hand as she gestures with the other while talking to a potential customer at her shop in Shuyuanmen, where a network of streets behind a section of the Xi'an city wall, are lined with dozens of shops like hers that sell articles of Chinese calligraphy.

Xi'an, the capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi province, is one of the country's oldest cities. And Shuyuanmen, among the city's oldest areas, was likely a hub of cultural activities in imperial China - at least during the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties.