在历史学家孔飞力的总结中,中国的“现代”移民开始于16世纪早期,至此开启了华人对外移民的四个阶段:早期殖民时代(16—19世纪中叶);大规模移民时代(约19世纪中叶至1930年);亚洲革命时期(19世纪后期到20世纪后期)和全球化时代(20世纪以后)。对于艺术家而言,据艺术评论家费大为观察,从1887年李铁夫留学英国阿灵顿美术学校开始,直至20世纪40 In the conclusion of the historian Kong Fei Li, China’s “modern” immigrants began in the early 16th century, thus opening up four phases of Chinese immigration: the early colonial era (from the mid-16th to the mid-19th century); the era of mass immigration Around the mid-19th century to 1930); during the Asian Revolution (late 19th and early 20th century) and in the era of globalization (after the 20th century). For the artist, according to the art critic Fei Dawei’s observation, Li Tiefu studied in the Arlington School of Fine Arts in England in 1887 and until the 20th century 40