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Born in 1953 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province.

In 1968, at the age of fifteen, he went to work in the rural areas in Zhenjiang and Taixing in Jiangsu Province as an intellectual youth.

From 1972 to 1974, as one of the first worker-peasant-soldier students in the Cultural Revolution period (1966-1976), he studied at the Fine Arts Department of Nanjing Normal University.

After graduation in 1974, he was assigned to teach at Taixing Middle School in Jiangsu Province.

In 1979, as one of the first postgraduate students of art history in China, he was enrolled in the Department of Fine Arts of the Nanjing University of the Arts, where he was guided by the famous expert in the history of foreign art, Prof. Liu Ruli. During the three years of postgraduate studies, he wrote a million-word textbook in the history of foreign art, which was the largest of its kind in domestic art schools at that time, and published more than ten articles.

In 1982, he stayed in the school as a teacher and devoted himself both to writing books and teaching. The Shaanxi People's Fine Arts Publishing House successively published his three monographs, A Brief History of European Arts and Crafts, A History of African and American Arts and Crafts and A History of Asian Arts and Crafts, which are the "first cornerstone" and "first textbook" of the history of foreign arts and crafts in China.

In 1986, Jiangsu Fine Arts Publishing House published his A History of Modern Chinese Painting, co-authored with Li Xiaoshan, which was a sensation when it was released and was an important work during the ‘85 New Wave of Chinese art and is still regarded as the "leading work" in this field.

In 1987, he was contracted by the People's Fine Arts Publishing House in Beijing to publish the three-volume History of Western Art Development, which he co-authored with his mentor, Prof. Liu Ruli.

During his ten years at the Nanjing University of the Arts, he also presided over and participated in the declaration of the school's doctoral program, and at the age of thirty-one he was promoted to be associate professor, the youngest one at the time.

In 1988, at the age of thirty-five, he went to the Hainan Special Economic Zone, and worked as the first dean of the School of Arts at Hainan University.

Three years later, he left his job to go into business, which he has been doing for nearly thirty-five years till now.

In spite of all the business hectic times, he has not dared to slacken on his studies.

In 1997, Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House published the World Painting Treasures, edited and contributed by him, with twenty volumes, three thousand pictures and hundreds of thousands of words. The book was listed as a key book during the Ninth Five-Year Plan period (1996-2000) of China, and won the only gold medal for art books in the publishing system.

In 1998, Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House published Encyclopedia of World Art (CD-ROM), edited by him and with contributions by Prof. Zuo Zhuangwei, and this book brings together nearly 10,000 works of Western painting, sculpture, architecture and arts and crafts.

In 2009, Shanghai Painting and Calligraphy Publishing House published his monograph A History of World Arts and Crafts. The year 2011 saw the publication of his monograph A History of European Art in two volumes.

At the same time, he has never forgotten to paint during his more than thirty years in business. Over the years, he has devoted himself to sketching and oil painting of golf course landscapes all over the world. Because he has been playing golf for thirty years, he has preserved more than one thousand oil paintings of golf course landscapes. In terms of the subject matter of the oil painting landscapes alone, it is unique in today's painting world. And on November 8, 2023, he held a large-scale "Golf Scenery Oil Painting Exhibition" in the Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, which was a sensation.