Jiajun Qian

钱家骏

He was the creator of a number of China’s earliest and award-winning cartoons, including "A deer with nine colors," "Why are the crows black?" and "Baby tadpoles look for their mother." Though not as famous as most of his students dubbed as the "golden generation" of China’s animation industry, Qian was regarded as one of the important industry founders. Born in 1916, Jiangsu Province, Qian developed a great interest in literature and art. In 1935, he graduated from Suzhou Fine Arts College and became a professional cartoon artist. He used to work as the director of Chongqing Educational Film Animation Studio, the board director of an animation school in Hong Kong and the director of China Film Production Factory in the Republic of China (1911-1949). After 1949, he was hired by Shanghai Animation Film Studio as its art designer, director and leading technician. Meanwhile, he also took jobs as professors in various art and film schools. In 1940, his maiden animation "Happiness in Peasant Family," a black and white movie with soundtracks, won wide accolade in the fallen country during the anti-Japanese Aggression War (1937-1945). The film was hailed as a parallel with the contempor

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