Hello, nice to meet you. I am Shirley Yiping Zhang, a full time student of Chinese Painting School / Graduate Scool at Chinese National Academy of Arts, Beijing, China.

I am really happy to meet you via Internet and since the moment that you entered in the little web site, you have touched a part of E-bridge Cross-Culture and Comprehensive Art, which I have been studying, thinking and exploring since 2000, and a part of my school assignments at China Central Academy of Fine Arts (Nov 2010-July 2011)and Chinese National Academy of Arts ( Sep 2011 to now).

Maybe you would like to ask:   What is the E-bridge comprehensive art? Why did I create it?  

Current E-bridge comprehensive art can be considered to consist partly of some vocal, bilingual poems, paintings and article series. It was created to help non-Chinese speakers to learn Chinese culture and language through the process of enjoying Chinese paintings, music and poetry, then go a step further by painting Chinese paintings , singing Chinese songs, reading and reciting Chinese poetry.   

Currently the E-bridge Comprehensive Art Product includes five main series and some sub-series:   

I. Vocal, bilingual Chinese poems, paintings and article series (Learning Chinese culture and language by enjoying paintings, music and poetry series);
II. Stories behind Shirley’s Chinese paintings and music series;
III. Shirley   created music for Chinese classical poems and singing series;
VI. Shirley’s bilingual Chinese folk song series;
V. Shirley’s Chinese painting series:
-- Chinese Gongbi Paintings
-- Chinese Xieyi Paintings
-- Chinese Mixed Gongbi & Xieyi Paintings
-- Chinese Mogu Paintings
-- Chinese Baimiao Paintings  

The first group of works from part I and III have been collected into a booklet and DVD, and be edited to be a publication, and will be published with name: 诗 画 乐：综合艺术汉语语 – Together with Me, Learn Chinese Culture and Language by Enjoy Paintings, Music and Poetry, and be published by Jinan University before June, 2013.  

Via this publication, you can

Together with Me,

Enjoy and Paint Chinese Paintings,
Listen to and Sing Chinese Poetry Songs,
Read and Recite Chinese Poetry and Vocabulary

by listening to the original music that I created for Chinese classical poems, listening to me reciting and singing the Chinese poems in Chinese and in English, seeing the large size paintings I painted for the poems , reading the cultural background of the poets, poetry, paintings and music, listening to the explanation of each line and every Chinese character, and follow me to read or recite the new words and phrases, lines and poems. If you have the inclination, you can also paint Chinese paintings, sing Chinese poems to the music included in the publication, recite the poems along with me, to learn about Chinese culture and language easily, naturally and artistically.     

The Theoretical Basis of E-bridge Comprehensive Art   I chose this method to introduce Chinese culture and language to non-Chinese speakers, mainly base on the instrumental character of art, the comprehensiveness of Chinese painting and the universality, stability and productiveness of Chinese primary words.