Ding Cong

Ding Cong, born in 1915 in Shanghai, currently is the director of the Cartoon Committee of the Chinese Artists' Association. Ding first had his cartoon works published in the early 1930s.

During the Anti-Japanese War, he worked assiduously as an editor, a scenic designer, an art teacher, and a poster painter in Hong Kong and Southwest China. His works entered many exhibitions under the category of cartoon. From 1945 to 1947 he turned out numerous sarcastic works revolving around the theme of the "struggle for democracy," and had them published in Shanghai.

After the establishment of the PRC, he worked as an editor for a pictorial. After 1957, for more than twenty years, his cartoon works were rarely seen by the public for various reasons. It was only after the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the CCP that his career as a cartoonist resumed.

His recent publications include Selected Cartoon Works of Ding Cong; Illustrations of Lu Xun's Novels; Ding Cong's Illustrations; Ding Cong's Painting; Things in the Past-Sarcastic Painting of Ding Cong; One Hundred Pictures of Interesting Ancient Scenes; The New Rendering of One Hundred Pictorial Parables; Cartoon Works of Ding Cong: Volumes I, II, and III; the English, French, and German versions of Ancient Interesting Scenes; and the English version of Current Interesting Scenes.

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