After the war ended, Mr. Mak toured Taiwan. The beautiful scenes and landscapes of the island inspired him to paint a lot of works, some of which were published in the local newspapers. As a result of offense of the local authority by his poignant cartoons. M. Mak fled to Hong Kong and later became one of the mainstay of pro-communist artists there and served as a cartoon culumnist as well as the editor in chief of the Arts Bi - monthly of the Wen Hui Daily until the Chinese Communists' take - over of Mainland China in 1949. Mr. Mak was among the first four leading progressive artists (the others were Guan, Shanyu; Yang, Taiyang, etc) who were invited by the Chinese government to return to Mainland China.

At the invitation of formers vice - chairman of P.R. China, general Wang Zheng, Mr. Mak went to the northwestern Xingjiang Autonomous Region and was appointed the first deputy director of the Periodicals Publishing House of the Xingjiang Military Unit. During his stay in Xingjiang, Mr. Mak visited the oilfields, farms, ranches, etc. and painted a great deal of sketches. Ones spectacular piece of this period is a scroll painting of the oil city Klamayi entitled "the Reconstruction of Klamayi", which has become one of the collections of the Chinese Military Museum.

Since his arrival in the United States in 1980, Mr. Mak worked as a garment factory worker, street painter, etc., in the meantime, his works appeared in the Chinese newspapers here and were on display in Washington, D. C.. He also donated many times funds raised from selling his works to the pro-democracy movement in China.

Mr. Fei Mak cordially invites your valuable suggestions and criticisms of his works.