Ah Er (1915), of Mongolian ethnicity, was born in Beijing under the name Jiang Feihong (蒋飞虹). Without formal training, he started drawing caricatures in 1936. His work was published in established…

Ah Lao (1920-2015), pseudonym of Lao Xianhong 老宪洪, was born in Shunde, Guangdong Province. He was a self-taught artist who got involved in producing propaganda art when he joined the New Fourth Army…

Ai Zhongxin (1915-2003) was born in Shanghai. He studied in Nanjing under Xu Beihong and others in 1936. As a student, he attended the Chinese Art Exhibition in Moscow in 1937. In 1946, he joined the…

An Lin (1917) was born in Saigon, Vietnam. In 1934, he returned to China and entered the Shanghai New China Art Training School, from which he graduated in 1937. Before he arrived in Yan'an in 1939,…