Ah Cheng
Ah Cheng | |
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Native name | 阿城 |
Born | Zhong Acheng (锺阿城) April 5, 1949 Beijing, China |
Occupation | author, screenwriter |
Language | Chinese |
Period | 1984–present |
Genre | Novel, screenplay |
Subject | Xungen movement |
Notable works | The Chess Master |
Notable awards | Nonino (1992) |
Zhong Acheng (simplified Chinese: 钟阿城; traditional Chinese: 鍾阿城; pinyin: Zhōng Āchéng; born 1949), often known by his pseudonym Ah Cheng, is a Chinese author and screenwriter.[1]
Life
Ah Cheng's father, Zhong Dianfei, was in charge of the Chinese Communist Party's Propaganda Bureau. In 1956, as part of the
In 1976, he returned to Beijing on leave and witnessed
In 1979, Ah Cheng and his wife moved to Beijing. Together with He Dong, Ma Desheng, Wang Keping, Huang Rui, Li Shuang, Qu Leilei and Ai Weiwei, Ah Cheng founded the Stars Group (XingXing), an assembly of untrained, experimental artists who challenged the strict tenets of Chinese politics. As a political and artistic group, they staged exhibitions around Beijing, making way for avant-garde art in China.
Ah Cheng also began writing stories about his life in Yunnan. One of these, "The Chess Master", was published in Shanghai Literature in July 1984. It was praised in
Chen Kaige, another contributor to Jintian, adapted "The King of Children" into his third film, King of the Children (1988), and Ah Cheng began working as a screenwriter.[2]
Ah Cheng won the 1992 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
Works
Screenplays
- Yue Yue (1986)
- Hibiscus Town (1986)
- Painted Skin (1992)
- Springtime in a Small Town (2002)
- The Go Master (2006)
- The Assassin (2015)
Novels and novellas
- "The Chess Master", also translated as "The King of Chess" (1984)
- "The King of Children" (Chinese: 孩子王; pinyin: Háizi wáng)) (1985)
- "The King of Trees" (simplified Chinese: 树王; traditional Chinese: 樹王; pinyin: Shù wáng)) (1985)
- Unfilled Graves (simplified Chinese: 空坟; traditional Chinese: 空墳; pinyin: Kōng fén))
Collections
- Three Kings: Three Stories from Today's China (trans. by Bonnie McDougall), published 1990 by Collins-Harvill (London).[3]
- The King of Trees (omnibus of "King of Trees", "The King of Chess", and "The King of Children") (trans. by Bonnie McDougall), published by New Directions Publishing in 2010.
References
External links
- Ah Cheng at IMDb