From Shanghai to Ohio: Woo Chong Yung (Wu Zhongxiong 1898 – 1989) – Order Now!
Posted Feb 28, 2025
Hou-mei Sung, Julia F. Andrews, Kuiyi Shen
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Julia F. Andrews, “Shanghai to Ohio: The Many Worlds of Woo Chong Yung / C.Y. Woo (1898-1989,” 17-37
Kuiyi Shen, “A Glorious Shanghai,” 39-53
Hou-mei Sung, “The Symbolic Language of Woo’s Flower and Bird Paintings, 55-61
Catalogue with scholarly entries, 64-137
Seals and Sword, 138-143
Chronology and Exhibitions, 145-147
From Shanghai to Ohio: Woo Chong Yung (1898–1989) features nearly 100 works of art, including painting and calligraphy, carved seals, and a Taiji sword drawn from the collections of the Cincinnati Art Museum and The Frank Museum of Art at Otterbein University. Few of these paintings have ever been published or publicly displayed. Woo’s lifetime body of work illustrates how his remarkable experiences of emigrating from China at the age of sixty-eight and becoming an American utterly transformed and reshaped both his life and paintings.
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Woo Chong Yung/Wu Zhongxiong 吳仲熊 (1898–1989), also known in the United States as C.Y. Woo, was a highly accomplished painter, calligrapher, and poet from Shanghai. From the 1920s to 1949, Woo was at the center of China’s cultural world, recognized in the art circles of both Shanghai and Beijing. Faced with political persecution in the 1960s, Woo migrated to Columbus, Ohio from Hong Kong in 1966 right before the Cultural Revolution. Once in the United States, Woo became an active presence in the local community, teaching classes in Chinese painting and martial arts and contributing his talents to local arts councils and ethnic festivals in Columbus and central Ohio. By the end of his life, he had become a cultural legend in Columbus.
