Seven-character Poem in Running Script

ZHANG DAQIAN (1899-1983) Seven-character Poem in Running Script Scroll, mounted and framed, ink on paper 68.8 x 135 cm. (27 1⁄8 x 53 1⁄8 in.) Inscribed and signed, with one seal of the artist Dated first month, sixty-first year (of the Republic), renzi year (1972) Dedicated to Liyu and Madame Shuyi NOTE: This work is dedicated to Yang Liyu (1934–2019), a scholar in politics from Jiangxi. Yang moved to Taiwan in 1949 and graduated from National Taiwan University. He later pursued further studies in the United States, earning a Ph.D. from Stanford University, and served as a professor in the Asian Studies departments at San Francisco State University, Winthrop University, and Seton Hall University in New Jersey.