Yu-zhan

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Yu Zhan (Chinese:毓嶦; Pinyin : Yuzhan, courtesy Name:君固Jungu * 1923 in Dalian , province of Liaoning in Manchuria in the northeast of the then Republic of China , † 8. July 2016 ) was a Chinese calligrapher .

He came from the Manchu family of the Aisin Gioro , who was the ruling house of the last Chinese imperial dynasty, the Qing dynasty .

Life

Yu Zhan developed a love for Chinese calligraphy as a child and learned the style of the imperial Qing dynasty. During the time of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo , Yu Zhan and his father were in the service of Emperor Puyi . He inherited the title of Prince Gong of the first rank of the Qing Dynasty (恭 親王; Pinyin: Gōngqīnwáng) from his father Puwei in 1936 .

At the end of World War II , Yu Zhan was arrested by Soviet troops and spent until 1949 in the Central War Criminal Prison in Fushun , Liaoning Province. During the Cultural Revolution , from 1966 to 1976, he was sentenced to forced labor by the communist regime .

Yu Zhan was a respected representative of Chinese calligraphy and specialized in semi-cursive script and grass script . He lived in Beijing .

Individual evidence

  1. [1] (Chinese), accessed on February 18, 2017
  2. ^ The emperor's last descendants in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from January 15, 2012, page 9