ocr: ARTS He wasn'table to share his happy world ofthe Dais, however. Fearful ofbeing caught by the Red Guards, Ting painted atnight and burned his work the following morning -until 1979. In1 1980 he was lucky enough to obtain a visH tor'svisa to meet his mother from Taiwan in Los Angeles. He decided to stay. The early days inthe United States were tough for Ting, who found few Americans interested in his Yunnan School paintings, no matter how beau- tiful they were. Worse still, Ting was almost re- turned to China by Mexican authorities in 1983 when he travelled to Tijuana to buy paint supplies wit ...
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