Abstract

The current dataset is associated with the Open Access publication “THE NEW ERA OF CHINESE GRAFFITI: Illegal Tag Bombing, Ancient Chinese Symbols and Chinese Calligraphy” (Italian Association for Chinese Studies. Selected Papers 5, 2025, Venezia: Cafoscarina). It collects the metadata descriptions of the main artworks analyzed in the publication as formalized in the “WRITE digital archive”, that is the semantic web digital archive of the WRITE project (G.A. 949645). Each file contains the metadata related not only to the artwork(s) itself, but also to its author(s), and Calli-Writing Unit(s) (CWU – artwork content unit with calligraphic features). The artworks were selected from a large number of works included in the archive as the most representative contemporary Chinese graffiti of the New Era (2020-ongoing). The dataset also includes the transcription of the two artists’ interviews cited in the publication. The data, here provided in a machine-readable format, are already described in a discursive way in the related publication.