Jiang Weipu

Jiang Weipu (; June 1926 – 29 September 2019) was a Chinese lianhuanhua artist, publisher, and art historian. Considered a founder of the lianhuanhua industry in the People's Republic of China, he has been called the "patron saint of lianhuanhua".

Biography Jiang was born in June 1926 in Huang County, Shandong, Republic of China. He joined the Communist revolution in October 1944, and worked as a journalist for East China Pictorial run by the East China Military Region. He later served as chief editor of the magazine.

In 1953, Jiang established the lianhuanhua division of and served as its director.

When the Cultural Revolution broke out in 1966, Jiang was persecuted and imprisoned for two years. He returned to work in 1968 after his rehabilitation. In 1973, with the approval of Premier Zhou Enlai, Jiang re-established the magazine Lianhuanhua Pictorial , which had been shut down since 1962. In the 1980s, it became one of China's ten best-selling magazines.

Jiang also wrote a number of works on the history of lianhuanhua, including Lu Xun on Lianhuanhua, A Treatise on the Art of Lianhuanhua, Appreciation of the Art of Lianhuanhua, and Sixty Years of Lianhuanhua in New China. In 2004, he was named a "Distinguished Art Historian" by the China Artists Association. The manhua artist Hua Junwu called Jiang the "patron saint of lianhuanhua".