Ying Ruocheng was a Chinese actor, director, playwright and vice minister of culture from 1986 to 1990.
10 Facts About Ying Ruocheng
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Ying Ruocheng first came to the attention of Western audiences for his portrayal of Kublai Khan in the 1982 miniseries Marco Polo.
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Ying Ruocheng is best known for playing the part of the governor of the detention camp in the Bernardo Bertolucci's film The Last Emperor, and the role of the Tibetan Buddhist Lama Norbu in Little Buddha.
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Ying Ruocheng worked as a theater translator, director, and actor for the Beijing People's Art Theatre, particularly for his role as Pockmark Liu in Lao She's Teahouse and as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman in 1983, directed by Arthur Miller.
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Ying Ruocheng studied in a church school in Tianjin in his early years, and later graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages of Tsinghua University.
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Ying Ruocheng was forced into the provinces to perform manual labor during the Cultural Revolution.
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Ying Ruocheng's wife, Wu Shiliang, was a translator, and his son, Ying Da, is a noted actor.
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Ying Ruocheng's grandson Ying Rudi is a noted ice hockey player.
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Ying Ruocheng's father Ying Qianli was a professor at National Taiwan University and Fu Jen Catholic University.
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Ying Ruocheng's grandmother Aisin Gioro Shuzhong was a member of the Qing dynasty royal family and therefore related to Puyi the last Emperor of China.