Fu Zhengyi
Fu Zhengyi | |
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Born | 1925 |
Died | November 15, 2019 | (aged 93)
Occupation | film editor |
Fu Zhengyi (Chinese: 傅正义; 1925 – 15 November 2019) was a Chinese film editor. He edited more than 200 films and over 400 television shows or episodes. He won the inaugural Golden Rooster Award for Best Editor in 1982 and the Golden Rooster Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2011.
Life and career
Fu was born in 1925 in Fujiawan, Huanggang, Hubei, Republic of China. His father died when he was three, and he lived on the meagre income of his mother, a weaver.[1] During the Second Sino-Japanese War, he fled Hubei for the wartime capital Chongqing, where he studied at a school for refugee children in Geleshan.[1][2]
In 1940, Fu entered China Film Studio as an apprentice, working under Wu Tingfang 邬廷芳, Qian Xiaozhang 钱筱璋, and Situ Huimin. After the end of World War II, Fu joined the Kunlun Film Studio in Shanghai, where he participated in the editing of many classical films, including The Spring River Flows East, Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon, Myriad of Lights, Women Side by Side, and Crows and Sparrows.[2] In 1948, Fu was appointed the lead editor of the film The Adventures of Sanmao the Waif, which received positive reviews when it screened in 1949.[2]
After the founding of the
After retiring from Beijing Film Studio in the mid-1980s, Fu began working in the then booming television industry, and edited numerous TV series including Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Legend of Di Renjie, Zheng He Xia Xiyang, and Dream of the Red Chamber. He edited a total of more than 200 films and over 400 television shows or episodes.[1][2]
Fu died on 15 November 2019 in Beijing.[1][2]
Honours
At the 2nd Golden Rooster Awards in 1982, Fu received the first ever Best Editor Award.[2] In 1987, he won the Outstanding Editing Award at the 7th Flying Apsaras Awards for Dream of the Red Chamber. In 2011, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 28th Golden Rooster Awards.[1][2] He has been called the "first pair of scissors" in China.[3]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Wang Zheng 王诤 (2019-11-15). "神州第一剪"傅正义逝世,一生都在和蒙太奇打交道" [The first cut of Divine China "Fu Zhengyi passed away and has been dealing with montages all his life]. The Paper (in Chinese). Retrieved 2019-11-20.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Ren Siyu 任思雨 (2019-11-15). "中国第一剪"傅正义离世 曾是《红楼梦》剪辑师" [China's first cut "Fu Zhengyi passed away" was an editor of "A Dream of Red Mansions"]. China News (in Chinese). Retrieved 2019-11-20.
- ISBN 978-3-642-23023-3.