Zhang Nuanxin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Chinese film director (1940-1995)
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Place of Birth: Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China
About Zhang Nuanxin
- Zhang Nuanxin (Chinese: ???, 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 Dive 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.
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