13 Facts About Huang Zuolin

Huang Zuolin whose ancestral home was at Panyu, Guangdong Province, was born in Tianjin.

At the party organized by the students of this college, Huang Zuolin performed the one-act play, East and West, which was written and directed by himself.

In 1929, Huang Zuolin returned to China and served as honorary president of Tientsin Anglo-Chinese College.

Huang Zuolin returned to China after the breakout of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937.

Huang Zuolin reached Shanghai in 1939, serving successively as director of the Shanghai Theater Society, Shanghai Professional Theatrical Troupe, and Shanghai Art Troupe.

Huang Zuolin used strong comedy expression to satirise the prevailing atmosphere of deception in that society.

In 1949, Huang Zuolin adapted and directed the film The Watch, which was unique and had a different method of expression from traditional films.

Huang Zuolin employed some amateurs and little-known performers, among whom were orphans from the orphanage and street children.

Huang Zuolin directed around 100 plays and films and encouraged a large number of theatre and film workers.

Huang Zuolin was the representative of the first, second, and third session of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China.

Huang Zuolin was a member of the fifth session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Congress, vice president of China Theater Association, and vice chairman of Shanghai People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries.

On October 24,1995, a statue of Huang Zuolin was unveiled on the lawn of former Shanghai People's Art Theatre.

In June 1999, his daughter, Huang Shuqin, made a donation to the Shanghai Library of more than 3,000 English books and over 140 manuscripts, letters, literature, pictures and works collected by Huang Zuolin, including some correspondence between George Bernard Shaw and Huang Zuolin.