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SELECTED CHRONOLOGY
1892 Born in Taicang, Jiangsu province
1900 Began to study Chinese painting with private tutor Tong Songyu

1912 Entered the Shanghai Fine Art Academy
1917 Went to Kawabata Painting School in Tokyo and studied oil painting and drawing with Takeji Fujishima (1867-1943)
1934 Appointed director of the Shanghai Xinhua Art College

1962 One-man show at the Shanghai Art Museum and Jiangsu Art Museum
1966-1970 Forced to sit on the foor and be criticized and beaten at the Shanghai Fine Arts Academy. Swept the streets in Shanghai

1980 The Collected Works of Zhu Qizhan published by the Shanghai People’s Fine Art Publishing House
1981 One-man show exhibited in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Chengdu and Beijing. Appointed professor at the East China Normal University.
1982 Shanghai Art Film Studio produces the flm The Painter Zhu Qizhan. Painting shown in the Salon du Printemps in Paris.

1983 Exhibited in and visits San Francisco
1986 Travels to and exhibits in New York, Houston, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing. “Fusing East and West” in Newsweek, appears on
ABC Eyewitness News, and flms made in Sweden and Brazil

1994 Encounter with Zhu Qizhan, Hong Kong Museum of Arts
1995 One-man exhibitions in British Museum and Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

Zhu Qizhan Museum of Art opens in Shanghai
1996 Zhu Qizhan dies on April 22nd at age 105

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