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Zheng Junli was born on 6 December, 1911 in Shanghai, China, is a Chinese actor and director. Discover Zheng Junli'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 57 years old?

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Occupation Film director, actor
Age 57 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 6 December 1911
Birthday 6 December
Birthplace Shanghai, China
Date of death 23 April, 1969
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Nationality China

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1911

Zheng Junli (December 6, 1911 – April 23, 1969) was a Chinese actor and director born in Shanghai and who rose to prominence in the golden age of Chinese Cinema.

His films The Spring River Flows East and Crows and Sparrows are widely considered classics of Chinese cinema.

He was severely persecuted during the Cultural Revolution and died in prison.

Zheng was born into an impoverished family, often harassed by creditors.

At early ages, he showed great interest in reading and art performing.

He left junior high at second grade and entered "Nanguo Art School" led by Tian Han and studied play acting.

1930

During the 1930s, Zheng was an actor under contract with Lianhua Film Company.

While with Lianhua, he played a number of roles, notably as the love-interest Yu Haichou in the film New Women opposite Ruan Lingyu.

1947

After the Sino-Japanese War Zheng began to focus his efforts on directing, most notably with The Spring River Flows East (co-directed with Cai Chusheng) (1947) and his anti-Kuomintang polemic Crows and Sparrows (1948).

1957

In 1957, the latter was awarded Excellent Movie Award first-class (1949-1955) by the Minister of Culture of the PRC.

Zheng welcomed the establishment of the new government of CPC.

As a left-wing director, he was at first one of the beneficiaries.

He moved his family from a dilapidated dormitory in Kunlun Studio to the best residential area in Shanghai, opposite the house of Soong Ching-ling.

On 2nd meeting of CPC 7th national congress, Mao Zedong mentioned some issues of CPC cadres after entering the cities.

Zheng immediately followed the directive and made the movie The Married Couple (我們夫婦之間), starring Zhao Dan and Jiang Tianliu.

It told a story of a CPC cadre ditching his original wife in his village in order to marry a girl in the city, showing his failure to resist the temptation of "sugar-coated bullet".

This movie was banned even before the public release.

Zheng was a member of Art Commission of Shanghai Film Studio and used to support the making of The Life of Wu Xun.

This movie was severely excoriated by CPC authority and Zheng felt guilty about that.

His former production, The Married Couple, was also criticized at this time, which exerted great pressure on the director.

In order to criticize The Life of Wu Xun, Jiang Qing and her followers went to Shandong to do research.

They found another historical figure, Song Jingshi, a peasant uprising leader of the "Black Flag Army".

They thus erected Song and Black Flag Army as revolutionary examples to further denounce Wu Xun.

However, a dilemma was encountered by Zheng and Sun Yu during the writing of the script.

In the real history, Song Jingshi eventually surrendered to Qing Dynasty; but for political purpose, Song had to be depicted as a determined revolutionary.

A compromise was finally reached with Song's surrender being shown as a mere tactical move in the film.

Due to the critical stance of The Life of Wu Xun, Shanghai Film Studio hoped Song Jingshi would redeem its "political mistakes".

The then vice director of the movie bureau, Cui Wei, even acted as Song Jingshi himself; other famed actors and actresses were all willing to perform minor supporting roles.

But Song being shown as surrendering to the Qing authority in any way was not well-received and the movie was only allowed to be released for a short period after four to five years after its completion.

In the end, the film that was meant as an "atonement" got banned.

After continuous lack of success, Zheng's next two biographical pictures on Nie Er and Lin Zexu (both starring Zhao Dan) won wide acclaim, and alleviated his feeling of guilt.

1969

Zheng was severely persecuted during the Cultural Revolution, and died in prison in 1969.

He was a delegate to Shanghai municipal People's Congress, a member of 3rd and 4th CPPCC, a councilman of China Film Association, China Playwrights Association and Shanghai Film Association.

Zheng was devoted to translating and writing works on films and plays.

So far his published works include The Birth of a Role (角色的誕生) and Voice-over (畫外音), among others.

He thought his performance was rigid and not satisfactory.

Thus he made great efforts to study performing theories.

He first tried to translate Acting: The First Six Lessons authored by Richard Boleslavsky.

Since he hadn't completed his junior high study, his English was poor.

Nevertheless, he was very diligent.