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Virtual Memorial

Pan Yuliang

A Memory Realm virtual memorial place honoring Pan Yuliang, remembered for Painting, Modern art, Women artists.

1895 - 1977Hefei, Anhui, China
Portrait or photograph of Pan Yuliang: Self-portrait paintings in the Uffizi Gallery
Self-portrait paintings in the Uffizi Gallery Francesco Bini, Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Why Pan Yuliang Is Remembered

Pan Yuliang is remembered for painting, modern art, women artists. This public page gives visitors a concise starting point for understanding why this figure remains part of cultural, civic, scientific, or literary memory.

The page is designed as an accessible introduction rather than an exhaustive account, with source links and image credits kept visible for further reading.

A Virtual Memorial in Memory Realm

This Memory Realm memorial hall turns a map reference into a virtual place for discovery. Visitors can move from the public page to the map and then into a 3D memorial hall connected to Pan Yuliang.

The place is part of Memory Realm's virtual layer. It is not a physical marker and does not claim rights, control, access, endorsement, or affiliation connected to a real-world site.

Place Context

Hefei, Anhui, China is used as a broad spatial reference for this memorial hall because it is connected to Pan Yuliang's story, memory, or public legacy. The location is intentionally city-level or region-level so the page can provide orientation without implying a claim over a specific property or institution.

Historical Context

Pan Yuliang, born Chen Xiuqing, was a Chinese painter, sculptor and educator, known for being the first woman in China to paint in the Western style. She studied in Shanghai, Lyon, Paris and Rome, and taught at the École des Beaux Arts. She is one of the earliest Chinese women to receive formal instruction in Oil Painting and Life Drawing. After that, she developed a distinctive hybrid style, which made the combination between European modernist techniques and Chinese traditional pictorial sensibilities. Recent scholarship recognized Pan as one of the most important modern Chinese woman artists, who discussed the East and West culture tensions, and the gender expectations during that time.

Memory Realm presents this context for educational discovery and remembrance, with public source links and media attribution preserved alongside the page content.

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Portrait or photograph of Pan Yuliang: Self-portrait paintings in the Uffizi Gallery

Self-portrait paintings in the Uffizi Gallery

Francesco Bini, Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Work or historical image connected to Pan Yuliang: Auteur(s): Pan, Yuliang 潘玉良 (Yang-Tcheou, 22–05–1894 - Paris, 07–1977) Date de production: En 1951 Datation e

Auteur(s): Pan, Yuliang 潘玉良 (Yang-Tcheou, 22–05–1894 - Paris, 07–1977) Date de production: En 1951 Datation en siècle: 20e siècle Type(s) d'objet(s): Sculpture Dénomination(s): Tra

Pan, Yuliang 潘玉良 (Yang-Tcheou, 22–05–1894 - Paris, 07–1977), https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/musee-cernuschi/oeuvres/autoportrait, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Work or historical image connected to Pan Yuliang: Auteur(s): Pan, Yuliang 潘玉良 (Yang-Tcheou, 22–05–1894 - Paris, 07–1977) Date de production: En 1951 Datation e

Auteur(s): Pan, Yuliang 潘玉良 (Yang-Tcheou, 22–05–1894 - Paris, 07–1977) Date de production: En 1951 Datation en siècle: 20e siècle Type(s) d'objet(s): Sculpture Dénomination(s): Tra

Pan, Yuliang 潘玉良 (Yang-Tcheou, 22–05–1894 - Paris, 07–1977), https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/musee-cernuschi/oeuvres/autoportrait, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

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