Chiu, who graduated from Hangzhou College in mainland China, had decamped with the KMT to Taiwan in 1949. Back then he was one of the few sculpture instructors in Taiwan who had received a college education in art.
中國杭州藝專畢業的丘雲，1949 年隨國民政府播遷來台，是台灣當時少數學院出身的雕塑老師。