The Voice of Kaishu: A typographic journey

Language becomes visible through letterforms. The exhibition "The Voice of Kaishu: a typographic journey"「楷書: 字體源流之旅」will foreground the place of typography in Taiwanese culture and trace the historic use of kaishu in Taiwan and New Zealand.

In Taiwan, letterpress fonts used for everyday expression belie deep cultural roots. One of these fonts, kaishu, was adopted in the early twentieth century as the de facto face of Taiwan and its people. Kaishu was also the font of choice for the Dominion Federation of New Zealand Chinese Commercial Growers in their publication The New Zealand Chinese Growers Journal, the de facto voice of the New Zealand Chinese community in the mid-twentieth century.