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Dong JIANSHENG  -  born 1936      

Dong Jiansheng was born in Hebei in 1936. After he worked for some years at the Masses Art Centre of Tangshan he began his studies at the CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts) at the age of 45. He was awarded with some prizes, for example in 1996 he won the Lu Xun prize by the CPA (Chinese Printmakers' Association) for being an outstanding printmaker of the 1950s and 1960s. Most of his prints picture the rural life in North China.

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Literature sources used for artist biographies:

• Merritt, Helen and Yamada, Nanako, "Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints 1900-1975", University of Hawaii Press, 1995, ISBN 0-8248-1732-X
• Lane, Richard, "Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print", Fribourg, 1978, ISBN 0-914427-54-7
• Laurance, P.Roberts, "A Dictionary of Japanese Artists", John Weatherhill Inc., New York, 1976
• Frances Blakemore "Who is Who in Modern Japanese Prints", John Weatherhill, New York and Tokyo, 1975. ISBN 0-8348-0101-9
• Annual CWAJ catalogs