Yu Youren was educated in the classics and passed the provincial level of the Qing Dynasty Civil Service Examination. Nevertheless, he was a founding member of the Kuomintang (the Chinese Nationalist Party) and worked to establish a modern republic. He became the first president of Shanghai University during the 1920s. Yu held the post of Taiwan’s Control Yuan, the ministry concerned with official conduct, bureaucratic examinations, audits, and impeachments. When Yu began to practice the art of calligraphy, he followed orthodox classical styles. From there, he progressed to a close study of Northern Wei tomb stele that led ultimately to developing a standardized cursive script. The four principles of Yu’s standardized cursive script are “legible, easy to write, accurate, and elegant.” The right panel contains the dedication to the donor’s father.