1898          Birth of Fan Tchunpi (方君璧, Fang Junbi) in Fuzhou (福州), China.

1911          Fall of the Qing dynasty (清朝), and the establishment of the Republic of China (中華民國).

1912          Fan leaves China with a group of students on scholarships to France, including her sister Fang Junying (方君瑛), her sister-in-law                          Zeng Xing (曾醒), and Zeng's younger brother Tsen Tsonming (曾仲鳴, Zeng Zhongming), Fan's future husband. 

1914          Start of World War I. Fan and her group of friends move to Nantes, and then to Bordeaux.

1916          Fan enrolls in the Académie Julian in Paris.

1917          Fan starts her studies at the École des Beaux Arts in Bordeaux.

1920          Fan graduates from the École des Beaux Arts in Bordeaux. She enters the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris,                              under the tutelage of Ferdinand Humbert.

1922          Marriage of Fan and Tsen Tsongming on Septembe 4, at Chaperon, a village on Lake Annecy in the French Alps.

1923          Fan's sister Fang Junying, returns to China; commits suicide in Shanghai on June 14.

1924          Fan gratuates from École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, as the first Chinese female artist to complete the full course as an                         enrolled student. Two paintings of hers are selected for exhibition in the Salon de la Sociétédes Artistes Français in Paris.                              One of the paintings, “The Flute Player”, is subsequently reproduced on the cover of the art magazine Les Annales.

1925          Fan and Tsen return to China. While her husband pusuits his career with his political associate Wang Jingwei (汪精衛), Fan                                teaches oil painting at the National Kwongtung University (國立廣東大學, now, Sun Yat-sen University, 中山大學) and Zhixin                          College (致新學院) in Guangzhou (廣州. She has a succcessfully accalaimed exhibition, with the National Government's                              purchase of her work, “Dragging a Rattan Leisurely On and Gazing Over the Fence.”

1926          Fan returns to Paris. She studies with artist Albert Besnard, and is involded in circles of painters, writers and intellectuals. 

1928          Fan exhibites four paintings at the Salon des Tuilleries.

1930          Fan returns to China, after travels with her husband Tsen Tsonmlng through Europe. The couple visits Beijing (Peiping , 北平at that                        time), where she is hospitalized with suspicion of tubercolosis. Thinking she would not live long she decides to have a child. 

1931          The Fan/Tsen family lives in Hongkong, Shanghai and Ninjing (南京), the national capital under the presidency of Wang                                    Jingwei. Birth of Fan's first son, Meng Chi (曾孟濟).

1932          Fan makes her first ink painting after studing traditional Chinese brush-and-ink techniques with the artist brothers Gao Jianfu (高劍                        父) and Gao Qifeng (高奇峰). The Zhonghua Publishing House (上海中華書局) publishes Collection of Fan Tchun Pi's                                    Paintings, the first publication devoted to her work.

1934          Birth of Fan's second son, Chunglu (曾仲魯).

1936          Birth of Fan's third son, Wen-ti (曾文棣). Fan makes a painting expedition to Huangshan (黃山), a mountain site in the Anhui                              province (安徽省) that has inpired many artists and poets.

1937          Japan initiates an invasion of China on July 7, which starts the ful-scale Sino-Japanesse War (1937-45). The family, with Fan and                        her children, moves the Hongkong.

1938          The Shanghai Commercial Press (商務印書館) publishes a volume of Fan Tchunpi's paintings in color, with an introduction by Cai                        Yuanpei (蔡元培).

1939          The Chinese government splits between Wang Jingwei, the civilian president, advocating negotiation with Japan, and war                                  minister Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石), with Wang resigning and removes to the French Indochina Hanoi (河內) with an inner                              circle of associates. An assaination attempt is made on Wang at his Hanoi retreat. Tsen Tsonming is killed and Fan, in the                              room, seriously wounded.

1940          Wang Jingwei establishes a "peace government" (和平政府) in the Japanese occupied Nanjing. Fan, recuperates, and lives with                        her children and family through the war, near the new government.

1941          Fan visits Japan with her family and paints at many sites. An exhibition major exhibition of her work is held in Tokyo. In                                      December, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. U.S. declares war on Japan. China, the resistance government (抗戰), joins the Allies.

1943          Fan goes to Beijing, meets artist Qi Baishi (齊白石), and paints his portrait.

1944          Wang Jingwei dies.

1945          Japan surrenders. Fan and her family move to Shanghai.

1946          Civil war starts bewteen the Nationalists and the Communists in China.

1948          Fan has an exhibition of her work in Shanghai under her married name of "Tsen-Fan" (曾方) in defiance of the genral                                        condemnation of the Wang Jingwei government.

1949          Fan goes to Hongkong with her three sons, and moves to France. The People's Republic of China (中華人民共和國) is                                        established. 

1951          Fan has a solo exhbition in Paris at Galeries de Conti.

1954          Fan returns to Hongkong to attend the funeral of her sister-in-law Zeng Xing. She has an exhibition at the Alliance Française. She t                        ravels to Japan and has an extended stay. 

1956          Fan has several major exhibitions of her work in Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto. She follows through with travels and exhibits in                                  Bangkok, Penang and Singapore. She returns to Paris, and accompaies her son Wen-ti to travels and painting in the French                            Alps, Florence and nothern Italy. Later in the year, she moves to U.S.

1958          Fan settles with her oldest son, Meng Chi, in Brookline, Massachusetts. She establishes herself in her studio and teaches Chinese                          painting classes. 

1959-69    With her home-base in the Boston-area, Fan makes frequent trips to Hongkong, Taiwan, Japan, Europe and South America, to                              show and to paint.

1970          Fan stays in Beirut, Lebanon for three months, with an exhibition at the Manoug Gallery, and visits to Syria, Turkey, and Egypt.

1972          With the opening of diplomatic relationship between the U.S. and China, Fan returns to China after being away for twenty-four                          years. She receives a reception with Premier Zhou Enlai (周恩來) and spends more than a year traveling and painting in                                different regions, completing more than one hundred works.

1978          Fan has a major exhibition in Hongkong: ”A Retrospective Exhbition of Works of Fan Tchun-pi“ at the Fung Ping Shan Museum of                        Hong Kong University (香港大學馮平山博物館). Fan returns to China for an exhibition of her work in Beijing, with a donation                        of forty of her works to the Chinese government.

1980          Fan holds an exhibition in Fuzhou, her birthplace, and is admitted into the Fuzhou Academy of Arts (福州藝術類院) as an                                  honorary member.

1984          A retrospective exhbition of Fan's work is held at Musée Cernuschi in Paris: ”Fan Tchunpi, Contemporary Chinese Artist: 60                                Paintings or 60 Years in Painting“. After the exhibition, with her deteriorating health, Fan moves to live with her second son,                          Chunglu and her daughter-in-law, Ann Herbert in Geneva.

1986          Fan Tchunpi dies on September 16 in Geneva.