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Edition 20 This print includes a translation of the Naxi pictograph text in Mandarin and English is provided and is printed on Kitakata paper. A translation of the Naxi pictographic text into Mandarin and English is provided and is printed on Kitakata paper. Zhang Yunling is a native of the Naxi ethnic group from Lijang in the Yunnan province of China. He was born in 1955 and graduated from the Department of Studio Arts of the Yunnan Teachers University. He has devoted himself to the study of the Naxi culture and art through his "modern Dongba" paintings. Since 1987 he has exhibited his works in China, Japan, France, South Korea and the USA. One of his paintings is in the collection of the Japanese royal family. He also teaches ethnic painting at various universities in the city of Kumming. He is currently a researcher at the Yunnan Ethnic Museum. These two lithographs were produced at Crow's Shadow while he was a visiting artist/professor at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, on a Freeman East Asia Grant. Naxi is the only living pictographic language in the world.