For the love of both Chinese art and western literature, Zhou Jianhua from Haimen, east China’s Jiangsu Province, applied the art of Chinese calligraphy using English letters. /China Daily Photo

Zhou quit his job around a decade ago and concentrated on the creation of English calligraphy. /China Daily Photo

He spends 1,000 yuan monthly from his pension for writing instruments and writes about 5,000 English words with his brush pen on China’s Xuan paper, a kind of rice paper used for writing and painting. /China Daily Photo

Zhou has even created a font of his own. /China Daily Photo