蔡志忠

Tsai Chih Chung (Chinese: 蔡志忠; pinyin: Cài Zhìzhōng; born 1948) is a famous cartoonist born in Huatan, Changhua County, Taiwan of Taiwanese origins.^[1] He is best known for his graphical works on Chinese philosophy and history, most notably the philosophers Laozi, Liezi, and Zhuangzi, which he made accessible and popularised through the use of plain language and visual aid of cartoon graphics.^[2] Many of his earlier four paneled works contain elements of political satire and those which are purely comical such as his well known work, The Drunken Swordsman (大醉俠).^[1]

The books of Tsai Chih Chung have been very well received by the public in both Taiwan and mainland China. They have subsequently been translated into dozens of languages including English.^[2] He currently resides in Taiwan and Vancouver.

Voici une histoire sur la cohérence des paroles et des actes (et du rapport maître-disciple) extraite de Soyons Zen :

Cai Zhizhong: A Master Cartoonist

"Cartoons speak in a language that not only expresses satire and humor, but also reflects human love and natural beauty. They can describe everything. I am particularly fond of ancient Chinese philosophies, so I make cartoons out of them." ----Cai Zhizhong in an interview with New Business in 2005 The first to create cartoons of the ancient Chinese classics Born in 1948, Cai Zhizhong, a popular cartoonist from Taiwan, was the first to use cartoons to illustrate the seemingly recondite ancient Chinese classics in such an amusing way. China has a wealth of spiritual heritage, including philosophical thoughts, poems from the Tang dynasty (618-907), the Book of Changes and Zen Buddhism. According to Cai, this wealth of spiritual heritage may not be easily understood, prompting his attempts to express these complex ideas with simple and interesting cartoons. Starting from the 1980s, Cai created a series of Chinese comic books on ancient Chinese classics, like Zhuangzi Speaks: The Music of Nature, Zen Speaks: Shouts of Nothingness, Confucius Speaks: Words to Live by, Sunzi Speaks: The Art of War, and The Tao Speaks: Lao Tzu's Whispers of Wisdom. Confucius, Lao Tzu, Zhuangzi, and Sunzi are widely credited as sages whose thoughts have played an important role in China's development. Cai put his unique understanding and feelings of ancient thoughts into his cartoons, and added a modern interpretation of them, making boring ancient philosophies quite amusing as well as understandable. His works won a large number of adult readers for comic books, a market predominantly children-targeted. This series of comic books has hoarded great applause from readers both in Taiwan and Chinese mainland, with 4 million copies sold in Taiwan. (chinaculture June 22, 2006)