A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Cheng Tang
唐澄
Born:
January 1, 1919
Died:
January 1, 1986
Tang Cheng (唐澄) (1919–86) was one of the most accomplished and versatile animation practitioners in the history of Chinese animation and the first female animation scriptwriter and director in the People’s Republic of China (PRC, 1949–present). Animation in the PRC was once famous for its ‘Chinese school’ aesthetics, in which female professionals influenced all dimensions of the form, from animation techniques to aspects of narration and artistic style. Tang Cheng was best known for directing or co-directing representative Chinese school animated films. However, her early career in animation screenwriting has been largely forgotten. This article not only highlights her role as a scenarist commissioned to write the screenplays of the didactic fairy tales Old Lady’s Jujube Tree (1958) and Radish Is Back (1959) but also analyses how the spirit of collectivism and childlike simplicity revealed in her screenwriting affected her later directorial productions such as Little Tadpoles Looking for Mother (1961), Havoc in Heaven (1961, 1964) and The Deer Bell (1982).
Action Director:
1958 Dr. Gu’s New Discovery
Assistant Director:
1958 Dr. Gu’s New Discovery
1961 The Monkey King: Havoc in Heaven
Director:
1958 Dr. Gu’s New Discovery
1958 Grandma’s Jujube Tree
1959 The King of the Forest
1959 The Radish Comes Back
1961 The Monkey King: Havoc in Heaven
1965 Heroic Little Sisters of the Grassland
1978 Is It an Elephant or Not?
1982 The Deer's Bell
2005 Where is Mama
2012 The Monkey King 3D: Uproar in Heaven
Writer:
1958 Dr. Gu’s New Discovery
1958 Grandma’s Jujube Tree
1959 The King of the Forest
1959 The Radish Comes Back
1961 The Monkey King: Havoc in Heaven
1965 Heroic Little Sisters of the Grassland
1978 Is It an Elephant or Not?
1982 The Deer's Bell
2005 Where is Mama
2012 The Monkey King 3D: Uproar in Heaven
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