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Chinese artist and writer (1898–1975)

Feng Zikai 丰子恺
Born	November 9, 1899 Shimen (Present-day Tongxiang), Zhejiang (Qing Dynasty China)
Died	September 15, 1975 (aged 77) Shanghai (People's Republic of China)
Nationality	Chinese
Education	Hangzhou High School
Occupation	Artist

Feng Zikai (simplified Chinese: 丰子恺; traditional Chinese: 豐子愷; pinyin: Fēng Zǐkǎi; November 9, 1898 – September 15, 1975) was an influential Chinese painter, pioneering manhua (漫画) artist, essayist, and lay Buddhist of 20th-century China.

Born just after the First Sino-Japanese War and dying just before the end of the Cultural Revolution, he lived through much of the political and socioeconomic turmoil during the birth of modern China. Much of his literary and artistic work comments on and records the relationship between the changing political landscape and ordinary people's daily lives.

Although most famous for his paintings depicting chil