Ah Cheng

Zhong Acheng, who writes under the name Ah Cheng, was born in Beijing on 5 April 1949. His father, Zhong Dianfei, was penalised for having criticised, in 1956, political interference in cinema. During the Cultural Revolution, he was sent to work in Shanxi, in Inner Mongolia and then in Yunnan. Back in Beijing in 1979, he took part in the Stars art group. In 1984 and 1985 he published the three stories that made his name, left for the United States in 1987 according to The Paper, and became a screenwriter after Chen Kaige brought one of his stories to the screen.

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• NarrativeThe King of Chess棋王Ah Cheng · 1984Literature