Director
Tang Cheng
107 years · Huangshan, Anhui, China · 8 films
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).
Best known for
Filmography 8
The Monkey King 3D: Uproar in Heaven
2012 · Director
The Deer's Bell
1982 · Director
Is It an Elephant or Not?
1978 · Director
Heroic Little Sisters of the Grassland
1964 · Director
Where is Mama
1961 · Director
The King of the Forest
1959 · Director
The Radish Comes Back
1959 · Writer, Director
Grandma’s Jujube Tree
1958 · Director