Ye Qianyu was a Chinese cartoonist famous in the 1930s. He is presumably the first Chinese comic artist to use speech balloons, in a strip created in 1929. He was one of the original vice-chairmen of the All-China Art Workers Association (CAWA) established in July of 1949 and was a central figure in China's arts administration. In june 1967, the Red Guard magazine Art Storm exposed Qianyu as a "cultural secret agent for the Sino-American Cooperation Bureau". Imprisoned for nine years, he was rehabilitated in 1979.
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