Ah Cheng

Zhong Acheng (simplified Chinese: 钟阿城; traditional Chinese: 鍾阿城; pinyin: Zhōng Āchéng; born 1949), often known by his pseudonym Ah Cheng, is a Chinese author and screenwriter.

In 1979, together with He Dong, Ma Desheng, Wang Keping, Huang Rui, Li Shuang, Qu Leilei and Ai Weiwei, Ah Cheng founded the Stars Group (XingXing), an assembly of untrained, experimental artists who challenged the strict tenets of Chinese politics. As a political and artistic group, they staged exhibitions around Beijing, making way for avant-garde art in China.

Works

Screenplays

• Painted Skin (Hua pi zhi yinyang fawang, 1993)
• Springtime in a Small Town (Xiao cheng zhi chun, 2002)
• The Go Master (Wu qingyuan, 2006)

Novels

• Qi wang, (The Chess Master)
• Hai zi wang, (The King of Children)
• Shu wang, (The King of Trees")
• The King of Trees A Collection of his three novels Qi wang (The King of Chess) Shu wang (King of Trees) Hai zi wang (King of Children) published by New Directions Publishing in 2010.
• Three Kings: Three Stories from Today's China (trans. by Bonnie McDougall), published 1990 by Collins-Harvill (London).

External links

• Ah Cheng at IMDb