Dr. Kenneth Kuanling Fan is a real gentleman with a loving heart for the people of the world. A businessman, educator, and painter, but foremost a poet, he was born in Nanking, China. He acquired his first Bachelor of Arts Degree at the National Taiwan University, his MBA at the New York University, PhD at the Utah State University, and his Post-doctorate at the Columbia University, USA. As an educator, he has served as a professor at the National Taiwan University, professor and dean of the School of Business, National Chengkung University, and professor and development chairman at the California State University, Long Beach USA. As the “father of the computer industry in China,” he has many publications and ties relating to modern technology. He also has many published books on healthy living and how to a live long and happy life.
One of ten master painters in the contemporary art world of China, Dr. Fan has lead the delegation from Taiwan to China, breaking the ice and uniting both sides of China. He is the founder of Poetic Oil Painting, and spearheaded the Revolutionary Haiku Poetry Movement. Aside from being a UPLI vice president and board member, he has been president of various world congresses in poetry, culture, computers and business 15 times, including the President of Academia of Chinese Culture (Taipei) and President of the Chinese Artists Association (Beijing). He was the first president of the World Congress of Poets in China.
Dr. Fan’s paintings are exhibited in many countries, and he has won many awards internationally. He has also been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature thrice. Marble monuments built to honor him stand proudly in Taiwan and China. Dr. Fan is hailed as a true renaissance man, along the likes of Shakespeare, Picasso, and the other greats.
