
A documentary film about the remarkable journey of artist Chang Dai-Chien (1899–1983), China’s foremost painter of the 20th century. Director Weimin Zhang documents her 12-year journey to unravel the mysteries and controversies surrounding Chang’s decades of exile in South America, Europe, and the United States. In the 1940s, Chang spent a formative period in Dunhuang, studying and copying the ancient Mogao Cave murals, which inspired renewed public interest in the murals and refined Chang’s techniques.
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