Zhang Shaoxia recalls the wonderful stories of compiling and publishing two masterpieces, A TREASURY OF WORLD MASTERPIECES IN PAINTING and A GRAND COLLECTION OF WORLD FINE ARTS. In 1988, Zhang Shaoxia left the Nanjing University of the Arts and was transferred to be the first dean of the School of Arts at Hainan University, where he prepared for the construction of academic disciplines. Later, he engaged in business. Although swimming in the business sea, he still had art at heart. At that time, while engaging in real - estate development in Shanghai, Zhang Shaoxia proposed a topic to the Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House, that is, to compile and publish a large - scale album. An important reason behind this was that when he was studying for a postgraduate degree at the Nanjing University of the Arts, his teacher Liu Ruli's academic concept was that an art historian who was not familiar with artworks was a pseudo - historian, which had a great impact on Zhang Shaoxia's subsequent academic path. Therefore, nearly thirty years ago, in 1995, he served as the chief editor and organized a heavyweight editorial and design team. This work was developed as a key book during the "Ninth Five - Year Plan" period of the country and was named A TREASURY OF WORLD MASTERPIECES IN PAINTING. During the early stage of collecting images, Zhang Shaoxia led a team to visit major famous art galleries abroad, and their footprints covered all over Europe. After the publication of this 20 - volume large - scale album and academic work, it caused a great sensation. Later, based on this, Zhang Shaoxia compiled and published A GRAND COLLECTION OF WORLD FINE ARTS. This CD - ROM contains tens of thousands of high - definition pictures. This great work has provided great convenience for China's art education.