XU BIN G (B. 1955) New English Calligraphy -No Man Is an Island Scroll, mounted and framed Ink on paper 91.5 x 69 cm. (36 x 27 1/8 in.) Executed in 2003 INSCRIPTION: No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; …any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. Poem by John Donne. Written during the war with Iraq and at the height of the SARS epidemic in Beijing, my hometown. Xu Bing.