Yu-Zhan

Yu Zhan (Chinese:毓 嶦; Pinyin: Yuzhan, courtesy name:君 固Jungu; * 1923 in Dalian, Liaoning province in Manchuria in the northeast of the former Republic of China) is a Chinese calligrapher.

He comes from the Aisin Gioro Mandschufamilie of which was the ruling family of the last Chinese imperial dynasty, the Qing dynasty.

Life

Yu Zhan developed as a child already has a love for Chinese calligraphy and learned the style of the imperial Qing dynasty. In the time of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo were Yu Zhan and his father in the service of the Emperor Pu Yi. He inherited in 1936 by his father Puwei the title of Prince Gong of the first rank of the Qing Dynasty (恭 亲王; Pinyin: Gong Qin wáng ).

At the end of the Second World War, Yu Zhan was fixed by Soviet troops and spent the years up to 1949 in the central prison for war criminals in Fushun, Liaoning Province. During the Cultural Revolution, during the period from 1966 to 1976, he was convicted by the communist regime to forced labor.

Today ( 2012) Yu Zhan is a respected representative of Chinese calligraphy and specializes in semi- cursive script and grass script. He lives in Beijing.

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