Zheng Junli

Zheng Junli was born in Shanghai on 6 December 1911, into a poor family of Cantonese fruit sellers. Trained at the Nanguo art school, he became in the thirties one of the star actors of Lianhua, then moved into directing after the Sino-Japanese war. He translated into Chinese treatises on acting by Boleslavsky and Stanislavski. He still made films after 1949, but his last film was not released. Persecuted during the Cultural Revolution, he died in prison on 23 April 1969.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaCrows and Sparrows烏鴉與麻雀Zheng Junli · 1949Cinema