The Play of Lines: Chinese Calligraphy and Painting

On Tuesday, 30 December 2025, artist and academic Dr Chuanyi LEI will give a lecture on Chinese calligraphy and painting, followed by a workshop on Chinese calligraphy for our students. We look forward to welcoming all students from our faculty to the event. (Poster design: Melek Şentürk)

Born in Beijing in 1987 to a Hui Muslim family, Said Chuanyi LEI graduated from the Department of Historical Architecture at the Faculty of Archaeology and Museology at Peking University in 2010. In 2019, he completed his master`s degree at Fatih Sultan Mehmet Foundation University in Traditional Turkish Arts with a thesis titled ‘The Chinese Influence in Kalem-i Siyahî Paintings in the Akkoyunlu-Turkmen Yakub Bey Albums’. In 2025, he completed his doctorate programme in the Traditional Turkish Arts department at FSMVÜ with a thesis entitled ‘Depictions of Istanbul in Miniatures from the Ottoman Period to the Present Day and Contemporary Applications’. He currently works as a lecturer at the School of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Chinese Language and Literature/Chinese Translation and Interpretation Department at Ankara Social Sciences University, Republic of Turkey.