Cheng Shifa (1921) is from Songjiang, in the
vicinity of Shanghai. In 1941, he graduated from the Shanghai Fine Arts
Training School. He joined the East China People's Fine Arts Publishing
House (now the Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House) in 1952.
Four years later he participated in the preparatory work of setting up
the Shanghai Academy of National Painting, which he now heads.
Cheng's artistic specialities include Chinese painting, comic strips and New Year pictures.
Sources:
Michael Sullivan, Modern Chinese Artists -- A Biographical Dictionary (Berkeley, etc:
University of California Press, 2006)
Zhongguo meishuguan (ed.), 中国美术年鉴 1949-1989 (Guilin: Guangxi meishu chubanshe, 1993)
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