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НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ • Серпень 2025 19 also a Junior Research Fellow at the Krymskyj Institute of Oriental Studies at the Nation - al Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and is a member of the board of the Ukrainian Asso- ciation of Sinologists. Dr. Golod has published widely in academic journals and international media outlets, including Foreign Policy, South China Morning Post, The Diplomat , ChinaFile, BBC Ukraine, BBC China, and Forbes Ukraine. She is also proud to be the sister of a brigade commander in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In her research, Dr. Golod heard of Prof. Xu’s work and his interest in Ukraine. She was able to meet him in 2022 in his New York stu - dio, and they soon became friends. Prof. Xu lives and works both in New York and in Beijing. Dr. Golod interviewed Prof. Xu for the Ukraine-China journal. In 2024, she invited him to speak at UNC Chapel Hill. Early in 2025 he spoke at Harvard, and soon after he did a moving interview with The Wall Street Journal . Prof. Xu’s critically acclaimed works have been exhibited at public institutions and are in private collections across China. He has had solo exhibitions at the Shanghai Art Mu - seum, at the Today Art Museum in Beijing, and at Harvard University. He is currently a professor of painting and the former Executive Dean of the School of Arts at Renmin University in Beijing. In 2016, Prof. Xu had his first major solo exhibition in the U.S. at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. And he is a staunch defender of Ukraine. Our Anniversary celebration honoring Prof. Xu Weixin took place on a lovely June evening at the beautiful Ukrainian Institute of Ameri - ca in New York City. Lydia Zaininger, Director of the Institute, offered to co-sponsor the event. As the In - stitute’s Director, Lydia Zaininger greeted the guests and introduced Ilona Sochynsky, a for - mer Branch 113 president, who introduced Dr. Vita Golod as the event’s first speaker, who in turn invited Prof. Xu to speak. Prof. Xu spoke through an interpreter. Prof. Xu explained that he began question - ing China’s widely accepted positive view of russia when russia began its unprovoked war on Ukraine, its sovereign neighbor, on Febru - ary 24, 2022. Dasha, a 10-year-old Ukrainian girl, cut off her hair and sold it for 10,400 hryvnia (Ukrainian currency) to donate to the Ukrainian army. Her hair had been growing long for four years. Dasha’s parents were surprised but supported their child’s decision. This Ukrainian soldier resting in a trench is the famous Ukrain- ian poet Maksym Kryvtsov. He was still alive when I painted him. Unfortunately, he was later killed in battle at the age of 33.
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