A Delicate Brush: The Life and Art of Zhai Jichang Zhai Jichang, a name perhaps unfamiliar to many outside the circles of dedicated Chinese art connoisseurs, represents a pinnacle of refined artistry within the Qing Dynasty. Born in Beijing in 1756, during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, he flourished as a painter specializing in flower and bird subjects – a genre deeply embedded in Chinese artistic tradition yet brought to new hei…