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In 1932, after studies in modern painting techniques undertaken in Shanghai and Tokyo, Qui Ti joined the Storm Society, the first Chinese art movement to fully embrace the spirit of modernism. Although she was the only woman member of this group, she played a central role in its radical break with the ink painting tradition, The Storm Society produced a manifesto similar in tone to those of Dada and Surrealism, exhorting artist to throw off the chains of academicism and take a stand for artistic freedom. The idealistic trajectory of this first event grade was cut short by the Japanese invasion and the Communist Resolution, remaining dormant until the 1980's . Qui joined her husband, Pang Xunqin, another leader of the Storm Society in a teaching career. But the new regime was not kind to the followers of "bourgeois formalism," and artistic life remained difficult for Qui Ti until her death due to heart failure in 1958. Her legacy, nonetheless lives on in the artistic accomplishments of her and Pang Xunqin's descendents.