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Chapter 5: Pursuit and Responsibility

【中文版】 A warm and loving family life did not dilute Li Xuying and Wang Yuanqi’s passion for art. Instead, it quietly reshaped the course of their professional journeys. In one of her poems, Li Xuying described her husband like this: “In his youth he mastered carving; in the capital he studied life drawing. With brush…

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Chapter 4: A Match Made in Heaven

【中文版】 1929 was an extraordinary year for Li Xuying. She graduated with honors from Yizhuan, co-organized exhibitions with her close friend Wang Lihua under their newly formed Xuli Design Society, and began to shine in the art world. Soon after, Yizhuan made an exception and hired her as a lecturer. But that wasn’t all. That…

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Chapter 3: The Start of an Artistic Career

【中文版】 On November 2, 1925, the National School of Fine Arts (Yizhuan) held its opening ceremony, marking the formal beginning of Li Xuying’s studies at the institution. Early the following year, Lin Fengmian (1900–1991), having just returned from France, took over as principal and began implementing educational reforms. In addition to restructuring class levels and…

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Xuying’s Work and Female Faculties at Yizhuan

Verse Under Green Shade includes a poem titled “Passing by the Residence of the Female Sculptor Wang Jingyuan,” likely written around 1963–64. Wang Jingyuan (1884–1971) was China’s first modern female sculptor. In 1918, she went to France, enrolling in the sculpture department of the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (today’s École des Beaux-Arts de…

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Chapter 2: Admitted to the National School of Fine Arts

【中文版】 Li Xuying loved drawing from childhood, and with real talent to match, she always dreamed of going on to study art seriously at a higher level. After a few years of teaching, she managed to save a small sum of money. She then resigned from her post at the Xiangshan Orphanage, and in 1925…

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“In Memory of My Late Mother” by Wang Hongzhi  

【中文】Li Xuying passed away on November 15, 1969. At that time, Wan’an Cemetery, where Wang Yuanqi was buried, was not yet open to the public, so her ashes stayed at home with the family.  In 1978, Li’s second daughter Wang Hongzhi (my mother) was working at the Beijing Education Bureau’s Textbook Editing Office. That August…

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Chapter 1: Family Background and Early Years

【中文版】 Li Xuying 李旭英, known by her pen names Xuyin 絮因 and Xuyin 絮茵, was born in the spring of 1903 in Guiyang 贵阳, Guizhou 贵州, though her family originally hailed from Jiujiang 九江, Jiangxi 江西. At the time of her birth, her grandfather served as a county magistrate in Guiyang. Xuyiing’s grandfather was a…

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Preface to Biography of Li Xuying

【中文版】 [Author’s note:] In the coming months (hopefully not years), I will gradually roll out the Biography of Li Xuying. For the time being, the scheme is to post the Chinese version in the “Biography” section of this site, and the English version here in the blog section. Preface The book Famous Design Artist Li…

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An Essay by Wang Yuanqi 王元奇

“A Modest Essay on a Grand Topic: The New Valuation of Art and the Awakening of Artists” was published in Yong Bao in August 1935. It offers a snapshot of his vision for art’s evolving role, urging artists to awaken and liberate art from religious and capitalist constraints to serve as a universal spiritual force…

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Revisiting Old Shadows: Republican-Era Pictorials, Stories Behind the Figures 旧影拾遗-民国有画报,画报人物有故事

2017-10-28 来源: 搜狐网 杭州晓风书店 [This article, attributed to a bookstore in Hangzhou, introduces Biographies of Figures in Republican-Era Pictorials 民国画报人物志 by Zhou Licheng 周利成. The book selects representative figures from the political, military, business, and cultural circles of the Republic, recounting anecdotes and interesting stories about them as recorded in old pictorial magazines. Drawing on a wealth…

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