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Peng Xiaolian was born on 26 June, 1953 in Chaling, Hunan, is a Chinese film director (1953–2019). Discover Peng Xiaolian's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old?

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Occupation Film director, writer
Age 65 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 26 June, 1953
Birthday 26 June
Birthplace Chaling, Hunan
Date of death 19 June, 2019
Died Place Shanghai
Nationality China

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1910

She was the youngest daughter of Peng Baishan (1910–1968) and his wife Zhu Weiming.

As a young child she experienced the terror of political persecution of her father.

Baishan was the Minister of Propaganda in Shanghai when he was arrested for his association with Hu Feng, a literary critic and politician.

Along with other associates of Hu, he was condemned as a core member of the "Hu Feng Counterrevolutionary Clique" and suffered in prison and labor camp.

1953

Peng Xiaolian (26 June 1953 – 19 June 2019) was a Chinese film director, scriptwriter and author.

Peng was born on 26 June 1953 in Chaling County, Hunan, and grew up in Shanghai.

1966

When the Cultural Revolution began in 1966, her mother began to suffer brutality from the Red Guards.

1968

The ultimate terror of the family came in 1968 when her father was beaten to death.

Even years later, Peng insisted on writing about the chaotic years and the aftermath in fictions like the novel Shanghai Story, the novella "Holding up the Book I Read Everyday" and the novella "Childhood: Secrets of Four Seasons".

Like millions of her generation, she was sent down to the countryside for "re-education" by peasants during the Cultural Revolution.

Although she spent nine years in the countryside of Jiangxi province, not many works of hers except for "Burning Connections" write about the experience.

1978

After the end of the Cultural Revolution, Peng entered Beijing Film Academy in 1978 to study directing, together with Li Shaohong, Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang and others, who would later be known as China's Fifth Generation film directors.

1982

A graduate of the 1982 class of the Beijing Film Academy, she was a member of the Fifth Generation, although her style differed from the other members of this group.

Upon graduation from Beijing Film Academy in 1982, Peng was assigned to work at Shanghai Film Studio, where she first worked as an assistant director.

Three years later, she was given a teenage film Me and My Classmates to direct.

1987

This family tragedy had a major influence on Xiaolian, who vividly depicts the terrifying memories in the 1987 novella "On My Back", the 1997 short story "To That Faraway Place", and in the 2009 documentary Storm under the Sun that she co-directed with Louisa Wei.

The film was a success and won the Best Children's Film Award of the 1987 Golden Rooster Awards.

1988

As a reward, she was a given a chance to direct a film that she had wanted to direct: Women's Story (1988).

This film made her known to the world, not only by entering festivals like The Creteil Women's International Film Festival and Hawaii International Film Festival, but also praised for its strong feminine subjectivity and its portrayal of rural Chinese women.

1989

In 1989, Peng won a script award for her script "Difficult Truth" at Rotterdam Film Festival, but could not make the film in China due to the tightening ideology.

She thought about leaving China and the success of her first two films helped to win a Rockefeller scholarship.

1996

She enrolled in the MFA program in New York University and graduated in 1996.

Although she did not complete a single film in New York, her experience in New York inspired many fictional works, including novellas “The Abingdon Square”, “Burning Connections”, “A Drop of Ram Shit” set in New York, “Exile’s Return” and “On the Way Home”—all collected in her novella collection titled On the Way Home.

After returning to China in 1996, Peng co-wrote (with Guo Lingling) the script for Huang Shuqin's film My Daddy.

Together with Zhu Bin, she directed her first thriller, The Dog Homicide (1996).

In the following decade, she made a series of films about Shanghai.

1998

She is known for her series of films about Shanghai, including Once Upon a Time in Shanghai (1998), which won the Best Picture Award of the Huabiao Awards; Shanghai Story (2004), which won four Golden Rooster Awards including Best Director and Best Picture; and Shanghai Rumba (2006), based on the romance of the movie star couple Zhao Dan and Huang Zongying.

Once Upon a Time in Shanghai (1998), a historical film about the Shanghai Campaign of 1949, won the Best Film Award of the Huabiao Awards.

2000

She also made a children's animation film, Keke's Magic Umbrella (2000).

2002

Shanghai Women (2002) portrays contemporary life in the fast-changing city.

2004

Shanghai Story (2004), which explores the vicissitudes of life of a bourgeois family from the 1920s to the 1990s, won four Golden Rooster Awards, including Best Director and Best Picture.

2006

Shanghai Rumba (2006) is based on the romance of the famous movie star couple Zhao Dan and Huang Zongying.

These films made her known as a representative figure in presenting the culture of Shanghai.

2009

In 2009, Peng co-directed (with Louisa Wei) the documentary Storm Under the Sun, an investigation of the Hu Feng affair which had implicated her father.

Peng and Wei interviewed 26 people who had been denounced as "counterrevolutionaries" for their association with Hu Feng.

2013

Peng was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013.

She underwent chemotherapy and her health temporarily recovered.

She began writing a book about her father titled Four Seasons of Childhood, and planned to make it into a film.

She also spent two years writing the book Editor Zhong Shuhe – A Documentary on Paper, about the publisher Zhong Shuhe.

2018

However, her health deteriorated again in November 2018 before she was able to finish either project.