Li Huasheng (b.1944) Yibin, Sichuan

Li's formal education was at the Yangtze River Shipping Administration's Shipping School, in Chongqing where, in 1967, he stayed on to work as a woodblock propaganda artist for the Shipping Administration. Li studied guohua (traditional Chinese painting) with private teachers at the Chongqing North Bank Culture Center, from 1959 to 1970, and is better known internationally for his paintings than for his prints. In 1985 he was elected an honorary member of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts.

101. Ten-Thousand Mile Voyage 1975 68x70cm. Black and white; oil-based ink on Chinese paper (The inscription, which gives artist, title and date, was probably not written by the artist) Demonstrating the responsibility now given to women, the print depicts a female officer guiding a passenger vessel down the great length of the Yangize River. The sun, rising in the east, alludes to the role of Communism, and especially *Mao Zedong, in bringing about this elevation in female status.