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The Line as Essence: The Life and Legacy of Li Huasheng To understand the work of Li Huasheng is to trace the turbulent veins of twentieth-century Chinese history itself. Born in 1944 in Yibin, Sichuan, Li belonged to the first generation of artists raised and trained within the framework of the People’s Republic of China. His early years were marked by a profound duality: on one hand, he was tasked with the creation of Maoist propagan

da during the 1960s, a period of intense ideological rigidity; on a more clandestine level, he was a scholar of the forbidden. During the chaotic years of the Cultural Revolution, Li defied the prevailing political winds to secretly study the works of Bada Shanren, a revered master of the Qing dynasty. This secret devotion to traditional ink painting provided him with a spiritual and technical foundation that would eventually allow him…