He trained in his native homeland and appears to be part of a remarkable culture transference. This transference occurred when 19th-century European academic realism traveled to Russia under the reign of the Czars. There it developed in the service of Communism as Socialist Realism and was later imported to Mao's China. Western oil painting techniques were fostered in the People's Republic during the Cultural Revolution and subsequently available to talented and hardworking young Chinese. Situ was one of the best. Situ earned Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Art Degree from the Guangzhou Institute of Fine Art, and then worked as an art instructor for six years in China. Situ Lived in Canada for ten years before he emigrated to the United State in 1998.