Wang Xiaoshuai (simplified Chinese: çŽ‹å° å¸…; traditional Chinese:
çŽ‹å° å¸¥; pinyin: Wáng Xiăoshuà i; born May 22, 1966) is a Chinese
film director, screenwriter and occasional actor. He is commonly
grouped under the loose association of filmmakers known as the "Sixth
Generation" of the Cinema of China.. Like others in this generation,
and in contrast with earlier Chinese filmmakers who produced mostly
historical drama, Wang proposed a “new urban Chinese cinema [that]
has been mainly concerned with bearing witness of a fast- paced
transforming China and producing a localized critique of
globalization.†Many of Wang's works are known for their sensitive
portrayal of teens and youths, most notable in films such as Beijing
Bicycle, So Close to Paradise, Drifters, and Shanghai Dreams. His 2008
film In Love We Trust was an exception as it portrays marital
strains.In 2010 Wang was appointed a chevalier of the Ordre des Arts
et des Lettres. He also served as a member of the jury of the
BigScreen Italia Film Festival 2006, held in Kunming, Yunnan,
China.Wang Xiaoshuai was born in 1966 in Shanghai but spent the first
thirteen years of his life in Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou in
southwestern China as a result of upheaval during the Cultural
Revolution. While in Guiyang, Wang became interested in and began
studying painting. By 1979, he and his family had moved to Wuhan. When
he was 15, Wang moved to Beijing where he attended the Central Art
Academy Middle School to study painting before eventually studying
directing at the Beijing Film Academy.
çŽ‹å° å¸¥; pinyin: Wáng Xiăoshuà i; born May 22, 1966) is a Chinese
film director, screenwriter and occasional actor. He is commonly
grouped under the loose association of filmmakers known as the "Sixth
Generation" of the Cinema of China.. Like others in this generation,
and in contrast with earlier Chinese filmmakers who produced mostly
historical drama, Wang proposed a “new urban Chinese cinema [that]
has been mainly concerned with bearing witness of a fast- paced
transforming China and producing a localized critique of
globalization.†Many of Wang's works are known for their sensitive
portrayal of teens and youths, most notable in films such as Beijing
Bicycle, So Close to Paradise, Drifters, and Shanghai Dreams. His 2008
film In Love We Trust was an exception as it portrays marital
strains.In 2010 Wang was appointed a chevalier of the Ordre des Arts
et des Lettres. He also served as a member of the jury of the
BigScreen Italia Film Festival 2006, held in Kunming, Yunnan,
China.Wang Xiaoshuai was born in 1966 in Shanghai but spent the first
thirteen years of his life in Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou in
southwestern China as a result of upheaval during the Cultural
Revolution. While in Guiyang, Wang became interested in and began
studying painting. By 1979, he and his family had moved to Wuhan. When
he was 15, Wang moved to Beijing where he attended the Central Art
Academy Middle School to study painting before eventually studying
directing at the Beijing Film Academy.
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