Pei-Shen Qian, born in China in 1950, is recognized as a full-fledged artist in his home country, where he has exhibited portraits of Mao since the 1970s and taught painting. But Pei-Shen also likes abstract art, and the government in Beijing does not approve of this style, which they consider decadent. So Pei-Shen immigrates to the United States on a student visa in 1981 and settles in Queens, New York. He studies at the Arts Student League with abstract expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart. However, he does not enjoy the same success as in his native country.
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