The main purpose of this work is to provide an unprecedented view on hanzi which a particular group of citizens called graffitists use for their everyday cultural practices. To fulfil the purpose as such, it, most of all, seeks to think of graffiti in general or praxis of graffiti writing as a form of art based upon the de Certaurean conceptualisation of ‘textual poaching’. Taking a more philosophical approach to graffiti from a Spinozian-Deleuzian perspective, it, then, reconsiders both graffiti and graffiti writing to be ‘crimes of styles’ resisting the taken-for-granted law and order that not merely controls urban streets but rules the everyday lives of citizens. In the final analysis, it underlines the cultural value of hanzi against a series of violent assaults carried out by the State on us, the citizens.

1. Graffiti: Aesthetically Pleasing?
2. Texutal Poaching
3. Hanzi and Graffiti
4. Hanzi against the Series of Violent Assaults
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Abstract

• Guk-jo JEON(Center for the Study of Chinese Characters in Korea, Kyungsung University) | 전국조