Jingdezhen is a culture city which has more than two thousand years ceramic history. The book "China Says" talks about Jingdezhen's cultural, environmental, social in my eyes. Since 2007, I work in Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute as a teacher. I have deep emotional for the city. In this book, there are many contents from my discovered and accumulated in these years, I want showing Jingdezhen in my eyes to audience from graphic design, photography, illustration, typographic.
Associate Professor in Visual Communication Design, Graphic Designer. Winner of the 2013 DAAD Artists Scholarship (from German Government), the only Chinese artist who was honored this scholarship by the DAAD evaluation committee from Bonn, Germany, in 2013. Delivered the theme lecture “China Says, Graphic - Visual Language” at the international symposium “Social Science and Culture Studies” organized by DAAD at Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, in May 2014. Visiting Researcher at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, 2015 Visiting Scholar to Braunschweig University of Art, Germany, from 2013 to 2014; International Judge for the Visual Communication Design Category of the 2015 Italian A’ Design Award and Competition; member of The International Council of Graphic Design (ico-D); member of The Art Directors Club New York, USA (NY ADC); national Committee Member of the Packaging Design Association of China; organizer of the overseas issues for the AGDIE Asian International Graphic Design Exhibition – Invitational. Winner of the Italian A’ Design Award and Competition Golden Prize, Germany Red dot Concept Design Award, Los Angeles the International Design Awards (IDA) Golden Prize and Silver Prize, China International Advertising Festival Golden Prize, China Star Design Art Award Golden Prize, China Packaging Design Contest Golden Prize, and other international and Chinese design competitions.
Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute is the only higher education institution which has “ceramic” in its name and multidisciplinary undergraduate courses. It is one of first 94 higher education institutions enrolling international students who can enjoy Chinese government scholarship for a master degree and a bachelor degree. The predecessor of Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute is China Ceramic Industry School founded in 1910; in 1947, Jiangxi Ceramic Industry Junior College was set up, which was one of five junior colleges in Jiangxi province; in 1958, with the general undergraduate organizational system, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute was established, which was affiliated to the former ministry of light industry; in 1984, it was approved to award master's degrees, and in 2013, it was approved to award doctor’s degrees. Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute has become an important base of exchanging national and global ceramic culture and ceramic art, cultivating ceramic talents and science and technology innovation.