Friends of ArtMalaysia

Chung Yi

Dr. Chung Yi, Director of Research Institute of Southheast Asian Arts 
and Cultures of Yunnan University of Finance and Economics. She is
a research scholar of the school of Philosophy and the School of Arts
at the Peking University. She has been lecturing, researching, writing 
and editing on Southeast Asian Arts an Cultural, with several books
and over 20 thesis published. "The Art Development of Malaysian 
Chinese from 1900 - 1965", in particular, is widely agreed as a 
milestone achievement. The main scope of her research is the
development of Chinese ink painting in Southeast Asia. she established
the grading system of Ink Painting as a subject for the Unified Examination
in 1990: the system has since been adopted in Malasyia, UK, Holland, 
Australia and New Zealand