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Yi Hong Bin, from Changsha in Hunan Province, pen-named Mi Luo, Chang Sha. He is the master of Zhong Zhi Xu Painting House.

He is a member of China’s Aesthetics Society, Chinese Fine Artists Association, Chinese Calligraphers and Painters Association, Chinese Writers Association, Chinese Poetry Association, an advisor of China’s Calligraphy and Painting Academy. He developed from childhood a keen interest in literature and art, especially in painting. While he worked as a journalist after graduation from university, he also devoted himself to research and writing of aesthetic and literary theory, and to composition of novels, prose, poems, and Chinese traditional painting. He has published a series of scholarly and critical articles and literary works in various publications, such as Venus, Human Brain, and Yardstick; Sound Spreads Far at the Summit; Serene Landscape; Between the Secular and the Divinity; Deep Oceans, etc. So far he has published such aesthetic and literary books as Selected Paintings by Yi Hong Bin, On Aesthetics, Revelations of Venus; A Bit of History, A Bit of Attachment; A World for Two, Mystery of Strange Partners, etc. Other books and articles have won various awards.

He is now the president of Jilin Daily Agency and its Calligraphy and Painting School, director of Chinese National Society of Journalists, vise-chairman of the Institute of Chinese Newspaper Supplements, chairman of Jilin Journalists Association, vice-chairman of Jilin Expert Association and Writers Association as well as Jilin Literature Association. He is entitled to government special allowances of the State Council, labeled as National Expert of Outstanding Contribution. His brief biography is included in books and dictionaries as Dictionary of Chinese Modern Fine Artists, Dictionary of the World Fine Artists, Biographies of Chinese Cultural Celebrities in the World, Glossary of the Achievements of the Chinese Artists in the World, and Catalogue of Chinese Modern Celebrities.