Tang Cheng

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Birthday 1919-01-01

Deathday 1986-01-01 (67 years old)

Also Known As 唐澄, Cheng Tang

Tang Cheng

Biography

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).

Known For

Director

2005
Where is Mama

as Director

1982
The Deer's Bell

as Director

1961
The Monkey King: Havoc in Heaven

as Assistant Director

1959
1959
1958
1958
Dr. Gu’s New Discovery

as Action Director

Writer

1959