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Sha Menghai (, June 11, 1900 – October 10, 1992), born Shi Wenruo (沙文若), was a great master of calligraphy in China. He also was a master of Chinese seal carving (中国篆刻艺术), a theoretician of traditional Chinese art, and a master of Shanghai School art. Sha Wenhan is his brother. Sha was born in Sha village in Yinxian,
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. He was a professor in National
Zhongshan University Sun Yat-sen University (, abbreviated SYSU and colloquially known in Chinese as Zhongda), also known as Zhongshan University, is a national key public research university located in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. It was founded in 1924 by and nam ...
(from 1929), National
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(from 1949), and
China Academy of Art China Academy of Art (), also translated as China National Academy of Fine Arts, was founded in Hangzhou in 1928 by the government of the Republic of China and the renowned educator Cai Yuanpei. It was the first art university and first gradua ...
(from 1963).


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*Zhu, Guantian
"Sha Menghai"
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* People's Republic of China calligraphers 1900 births 1992 deaths Chinese seal artists Artists from Ningbo Zhejiang University faculty China Academy of Art Republic of China calligraphers Chinese art historians Writers from Ningbo Educators from Ningbo 20th-century Chinese historians Historians from Zhejiang {{art-historian-stub