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Zeng Shanqing studied under Xu Beihong at the Central Art Academy in Beijing, graduated in 1981, and became an Associate Professor. In 1986, he and his wife Yang Yanping, also an artist, were invited to be artists-in-residence at the State University of New York at Stonybrook, and they have been living in New York ever since. Zeng's works have been presented at many international exhibitions; for instance, at the Chinese Art Museum in Beijing, the Spring Salon in Paris, the Bawag Foundation Gallery in Vienna, and more recently at the Godfrey Far Eastern Art Gallery in Hong Kong and the Plum Blossoms Gallery in Singapore. A good example of his work is held in the collection of contemporary Chinese paintings at the British Museum in London.