Rao Zongyi is native of Chaozhou, Guangdong province. A traditional guohua painter, calligrapher and scholar, he has held teaching appointments in the National University of Singapore (1952-1973), in Hong Kong University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he was Professor of Chinese. He also served as visiting professor at Yale University, and in France and Japan. In1962, he received the Prize Stanislas Julian and in 1993 the Art and Letters Official Medal from the Ministry of Culture, Paris.
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