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BEIJING, China / United Press International / Entertainment / May 27, 2009
Popular Chinese caricaturist Ding Cong, known for his illustrations of famous fiction figures, died in Beijing at age 93, Chinese media reported Wednesday.
Ding died Tuesday of cerebrovascular disease, the China Daily reported quoting his wife Shen Jun, who said her husband had instructed there be no farewell ceremony or memorial meeting upon his death.
"In Remembrance of the teahouses" by Ding Cong (Xiao Ding). Courtesy: Lambiek.net)
"He was a common person and wanted to leave as a common person," she was quoted as saying.
A bust of 'Docile Man' (1945)
Besides his drawings of fiction figures from the novels of writers such as Lu Xun (1881-1936) and Lao She (1899-1966), Ding, who was born in Shanghai, also had been contributing a column in Dushu (Reading) magazine.
Ding had worked as an editor, stage designer and art teacher in China and Hong Kong during the country's war against Japan from 1937 to 1945. His caricatures then encouraged resistance to the Japanese invasion, the newspaper reported.
After 1949, Ding had served as an editor at the
People's Pictorial.
China Daily said for two decades after 1957, the country's extreme leftist policies had prevented him from publishing his caricatures. After 1978, he published more than 30 collections, some of which were published in English, German and Japanese.
© 2009 United Press International, Inc
Popular Chinese caricaturist Ding Cong, known for his illustrations of famous fiction figures, died in Beijing at age 93, Chinese media reported Wednesday.
Ding died Tuesday of cerebrovascular disease, the China Daily reported quoting his wife Shen Jun, who said her husband had instructed there be no farewell ceremony or memorial meeting upon his death.
"In Remembrance of the teahouses" by Ding Cong (Xiao Ding). Courtesy: Lambiek.net)
"He was a common person and wanted to leave as a common person," she was quoted as saying.
A bust of 'Docile Man' (1945)
Besides his drawings of fiction figures from the novels of writers such as Lu Xun (1881-1936) and Lao She (1899-1966), Ding, who was born in Shanghai, also had been contributing a column in Dushu (Reading) magazine.
Ding had worked as an editor, stage designer and art teacher in China and Hong Kong during the country's war against Japan from 1937 to 1945. His caricatures then encouraged resistance to the Japanese invasion, the newspaper reported.
After 1949, Ding had served as an editor at the People's Pictorial.
China Daily said for two decades after 1957, the country's extreme leftist policies had prevented him from publishing his caricatures. After 1978, he published more than 30 collections, some of which were published in English, German and Japanese.
© 2009 United Press International, Inc
