Quick Read Series of Modern Chinese Literature Masters and Famous Authors - Feng Jicai

Author: Jing Ronghua (Compiler)
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: "A land nurtures its people, and people embody the spirit of the land. How could Feng Jicai, born into a merchant family, grow into a writer? It must be the spiritual essence of Cixing! The course of his life is synchronized with the development of the city, deeply intertwined with it as a cultural whole. It is both a nest for life and a nest for the soul. Feng Jicai and Tianjin belong to the latter category, similar, in a certain sense, to Mao Dun and Wuzhen, Lu Xun and Shaoxing, or Lao She and Beijing. He said, 'Literature is an unbroken scroll of images, while painting is a momentary stillness of literature. Literature paints with words,' and 'Painting writes with ink. Every dot, line, patch of color, or splash of ink in a painting is language.' Feng Jicai writes by chance, relying entirely on intuition. His calligraphy is the calligraphy of a writer, the calligraphy of an intellectual. Feng Jicai is a great talent, wielding a pen to roam the literary world and gain fame worldwide; with a brush, he freely expresses himself in painting, forging a unique path and establishing his own style in the art of painting."