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Zhang Nuanxin was born on 27 October, 1940 in Inner Mongolia, is a Chinese film director (1940–1995). Discover Zhang Nuanxin'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 54 years old?

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Occupation Director
Age 54 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 27 October, 1940
Birthday 27 October
Birthplace Inner Mongolia
Date of death 28 May, 1995
Died Place Beijing
Nationality Mongolia

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1940

Zhang Nuanxin (, 27 October 1940-28 May 1995) was a Chinese film director, and a leading figure of the Fourth Generation of Chinese directors.

Her most famous film The Drive to Win won the 2nd Golden Rooster special awards.

Nuanxin Zhang is also best known for her films Sacrifice of Youth, A Yunnan Story.

Chinese film theorist, the doctoral supervisor of Peking university Jinhua Dai, argues that she is not only a film director but also a film theorist.

Her journal article The Film Language' s Modernization which she co-authored with her husband Li Tuo, is being considered as the manifesto of new era Chinese cinema.

Another film theorist, Zhenqin Zhang, argues that she is the pioneer of Chinese film realistic aesthetics and Chinese women cinema.

Nuanxin Zhang was born in Inner Mongolia, China.

Her parents were doctors, and her family was from Tie Ling, Liao Ning, China.

1943

In 1943, Nuanxin Zhang moved with her parents to Beijing, China.

She was raised in Beijing.

1958

In 1958, Nuanxin Zhang graduated from the High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China and began studying at the Beijing Film Academy.

1960

Because she studied at the Beijing Film Academy around the 1960s but started making films in the 1970s, she is considered as a Chinese fourth-generation film director.

1962

In 1962, Zhang graduated and later returned as a professor at the department of directing.

She married the famous Chinese writer Li Tuo the same year.

1972

Zhang kept teaching at the Beijing Film Academy until 1972.

1974

In 1974, she started working in Shanghai Film Studio where she began a career in filmmaking.

She began to gain experience as a film maker when working on The second spring (1974) and ChunMiao (1975).

1979

In 1979, she joined the Shanghai Film Studio and began her career as a director's assistant.

She worked with famous directors such as Hu Sang and Xie Jin, the leading figure of Chinese third-generation film directors.

Three years later, she began working with Yao Shuping and her husband Li Tuo on her first film script Li Siguang (1979).

That same year co-authored an article called The Modernization of the Language of Film with her husband which was published Film Arts the most famous Chinese film academic journal.

Chinese film theorist Dai Jinhua argues that The Film Language ' s Modernization is the manifesto of new era Chinese cinema.

1981

1981, Nuanxin Zhang directed her first film The Drive to Win (1981), and it won her a Golden Rooster special director awards, best recording awards.

Chinese Ministry of Culture also gives The Drive to Win the outstanding film award.

The Drive to Win was met with critical acclaim, bringing Zhang to the forefront of the Chinese art directors.

1983

Because of the success of the film The Drive to Win, Zhang wrote the book which is The Drive to Win— from script to film and this book published by China Film Press in December 1983.

1984

In 1984, Zhang starts to planning the film Sacrifice of Youth (1985), this film is adapted from the novel A beautiful place which wrote by Manling Zhang, and it finished in 1985.

1987

In 1987, Zhang Nuanxin with French director Jacques Dorfmann co-directed the film Le Palanquin des Larmes (1987).

1988

In 1988, Nuanxin Zhang plans to adapted famous Chinese author Wang Shuo's novel Playing for Thrills and finished the film script.

Eventually, she didn't finish it.

1990

The 1990s, Zhang Nuanxin made her most important films.

In 1990, Nuanxin Zhang directs the film Good Morning, Beijing (1990), won the Hong Kong International Film Festival Best Film from Mainland and Taiwan awards.

The actors in this film Wang Quanan, Ma Xiaoqing, Jia Hongsheng become the leading figures of Chinese six-generation film director.

1993

1993, Nuanxin Zhang directs film A Yunnan Story (1993), and this film acted famous actor Pu Cunxin.

1994

1994: South China (1994) is Zhang Nuanxin's last film, which she directed in 1994.

1995

On May 28, 1995, Nuanxin Zhang died in Beijing because of cancer.

Her funeral was held on June 3, famous Chinese author Wang Zengqi wrote her an elegiac couplet.

Zhang's film treats themes of alienated youth, contemporary Chinese history, as well as her signature usage of the long-take, color digital video, and his realist style.

Chinese film theorist Zhang Zhenqin argues thatNuanxin Zhang's work speaks to a vision of "authentic" Chinese life.

The Drive to Win, in particular, Zhang tells a story about women, about a normal female volleyball athlete(Sha Ou Played by Shanshan Chang)'s life, even Sha ou has been going through the team lose world champion and her husband's death, but her still facing her life optimistic.