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CHENG SHIFA, 86 Painter, cartoonist

Famed Chinese painter, cartoonist and calligrapher Cheng Shifa has died in his hometown of Shanghai, local media reported. He was 86.

According to the Shanghai Daily newspaper, Mr. Cheng died Tuesday in a city hospital after an undisclosed illness.

Although known early on as a cartoonist and illustrator, Mr. Cheng became best known for his traditional brush paintings of minority tribes from the southwestern province of Yunnan.

Those works won artistic praise and political favor for stressing the unity of all Chinese ethnic groups.

Mr. Cheng graduated from the Shanghai Art College in 1941. He staged his first showing a year later, then gained fame for illustrating an edition of short stories by Lu Xun, one of the best-known Chinese writers and satirists of the 20th century.

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