About the author
Prof. I-Hsiung Ju was born in Kiangyin, Kiangsu, China, in 1923. He graduated from the National University of Amoy in 1947 and received his A. B. degree in Chinese Art and Literature. Because of the war in China, he went to the Philippines to teach and at the same time to continue his studies. He graduated from the University of Santo Tomas in Manila and received his B. F. A. and M. A. in History. He has been considered as one of few Chinese artists able to blend two worlds of style, technique, and idiom to produce a unique form of painting which is both modern and traditionally Oriental. According to him, "a Chinese artist is not only a painter, but also a poet and a philosopher." A prize winner in graphic art, oil painting, and Nanga works in various countries, a writer and a lecturer on art, he has held many one-man shows in Australia, Canada, China, England, Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines, and the United States. He is the author of many books and numerous papers on Chinese art. As an Artist-in-Residence and Professor of Art at Washington and Lee University, he was selected Professor of the Year for 1971 by the Ringtum Phi, the Washington and Lee University newspaper, and was awarded the Best Art Educator of the Year for 1974 by the Chinese National Writers and Artists' Association in Taipei, Taiwan, the Republic of China.