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Born in Scotland in 1891, Ian Fairweather studied forestry at London and Edinburgh universities and art at the Slade School. He served in both world wars and in the World War I was a prisoner of war in Holland where, after three attempts to escape, he began to paint and study Chinese calligraphy.
After the war, he returned to London and to the Slade School to study art. One year later he began his life=-long study of Chinese culture and language and Japanese calligraphy. Later he was to speak Chinese fluently and translate Chinese poetry and philosophy.
Fairweather's life was diverse. He was a traveler, an artist, an aesthete and a scholar, and from 1921 for almost the next 50 years of his life all these characteristics were to remain constant.
Before arriving in Australia in 1934, he had lived, for 6 years in all, in China and spent a year in Canada. En route to Australia he traveled to the Philippines and Bali. Throughout his travels he was to continue to study Chinese......
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