JRUL's Special Collections in Radio 4 interview
14 Dec 2009
An interview about the poet-artist Li Yuan-Chia
Radio 4, Tuesday 22 December at 11.30am
Li Yuan-Chia was one of the first significant Chinese abstract artists of the 20th Century. This programme, presented by Sally Lai, the director of Manchester's Chinese Arts Centre, examines his career from the place where he spent the last 28 years of his life: a stone farmhouse, built next to Hadrian's Wall in Cumbria.
Li Yuan-Chia had a remarkable life and career including building a gallery, library, theatre, printing press, children's art room and photograhic darkroom, and opened it to the public. The John Rylands University Library acquired his archives in May 2008.
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