15 Facts About Zheng Junli

Zheng Junli was a Chinese actor and director born in Shanghai and who rose to prominence in the golden age of Chinese Cinema.

Zheng Junli was severely persecuted during the Cultural Revolution and died in prison.

Zheng Junli welcomed the establishment of the new government of Chinese Communist Party.

Zheng Junli moved his family from a dilapidated dormitory in Kunlun Studio to the best residential area in Shanghai, opposite the house of Soong Ching-ling.

Zheng Junli immediately followed the directive and made the movie The Married Couple, starring Zhao Dan and Jiang Tianliu.

Zheng Junli was a member of Art Commission of Shanghai Film Studio and used to support the making of The Life of Wu Xun.

Zheng Junli was severely persecuted during the Cultural Revolution, and died in prison in 1969.

Zheng Junli was a delegate to Shanghai municipal People's Congress, a member of 3rd and 4th CPPCC, a councilman of China Film Association, China Playwrights Association and Shanghai Film Association.

Zheng Junli was devoted to translating and writing works on films and plays.

Zheng Junli thought his performance was rigid and not satisfactory.

Zheng Junli first tried to translate Acting: The First Six Lessons authored by Richard Boleslavsky.

Zheng Junli did the translation relying on an English dictionary, and then double-checked the original book using a Russian-English dictionary and corrected any mistakes.

Zheng Junli was the first one who introduced the performing system of Constantin Stanislavski into China.

Stanislavski's works were all written in Russian; Zheng Junli thus found an English-Russian and Russian-English dictionary and translated Russian to Chinese through English.

At the time when no one in China dared to break ideological shackle and compare films of the western world with ones of the Soviet Union, it was a breakthrough by Zheng Junli to write a chronicle of world films from a universal perspective.