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Te Wei (Sheng Song) was born on 22 August, 1915 in Shanghai, is a Te Wei was manhua artist and animator manhua artist and animator. Discover Te Wei's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 94 years old?

Popular As Sheng Song
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Age 94 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 22 August 1915
Birthday 22 August
Birthplace Shanghai
Date of death 4 February, 2010
Died Place Shanghai
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1915

Te Wei (1915-08-22 in Shanghai2010-02-04 in Shanghai) was a Chinese manhua artist and animator.

1949

After Mao Zedong's seizing power in 1949, an executive in charge of the Changchun Film Studio would remember Te Wei's cartoons, and approached him to lead the studio's animation department, despite his total lack of experience in animation.

The Japanese animator Tadahito Mochinaga served as his mentor, and the two became lifelong friends.

Within a year, the studio was relocated to Shanghai, where they enjoyed a brief period of artistic freedom with governmental funding during the Hundred Flowers Campaign.

Initially, much was learned by studying Soviet animation, but the studio soon started experimenting with techniques based on domestic traditions.

1956

He is probably best known for the 1956 short animated film The Proud General.

The Proud General (1956) shows influences from both Chinese culture, with character designs and music inspired by the Peking opera, and Soviet animators such as Ivan Ivanov-Vano, as well as western ones such as Walt Disney.

During a visit to the studio, then Vice Premier Chen Yi suggested that they make an animated version of the paintings of Qi Baishi.

A group of animators led by Te Wei thus set out to create Where is Mama.

The film was the first to make use of ink-wash animation, and would go on to win several awards, both in China and internationally.

1960

From about 1960, he worked in an ink-wash animation style that was influenced by the painter Qi Baishi.

1963

It was followed by The Cowboy's Flute (1963) in the same technique.

1964

In 1964, as Mao was gearing up for the Cultural Revolution, the studio was shut down, and Te Wei was placed in solitary confinement for a year.

To keep his spirits up, he would sketch on the glass pane of a table that stood in his small room, erasing the drawings when he heard a guard approaching.

1970

Not permitted to carry on his animation during the Cultural Revolution, Te Wei regained a position of artistic influence in the late 1970s and the 1980s with a series of animated films in painterly style.

Te Wei was born as Sheng Song to a poor family in Shanghai.

As a teenager, he started drawing political cartoons, and would later make a living drawing anti‑Japanese propaganda.

1975

Te Wei spent the following years in exile in the countryside, and was not able to return to the studio until 1975.

1976

The constraints of the Cultural Revolution were starting to loosen, and Mao's death in 1976 was followed by a new period of artistic vigour.

1980

The 1980s would be an intense period for Te Wei, who found himself in charge of some 500 workers at the studio.

Still benefitting from state funding, the studio produced some of its most acclaimed and experimental work.

1984

Having stepped down as studio president in 1984, Te Wei directed the feature film Monkey King Conquers the Demon (1984), based on Journey to the West, and the acclaimed Feeling from Mountain and Water (1988), that would turn out to be his last film.

1989

In 1989, the Communist Party honored Te Wei by naming him one of the four outstanding filmmakers in China's history.