Yan Shunkai
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
He is a National First-Grade Actor and an expert entitled to the special government allowance of the State Council. In 1959 he was admitted to the Acting Department of the Central Academy of Drama. After graduating in 1963 he was assigned as an actor to the Farce Troupe of the Shanghai People's Art Theatre. In such representative farces as A Hun Xin Zhuan (The New Story of A Hun), Tebie De Ai (A Special Love), Duyang Nü'er (The Only Daughter) and Taitai Wansui (Long Live the Wife) he served as playwright, director and leading actor. As one of the representative figures of "southern-style xiaopin" (short comic sketches), he appeared many times at the Spring Festival Gala of China Central Television. His representative works include Zhang San Qiren (The Man Named Zhang San), Wo Zai Malu Bian (By the Roadside) and Nanxiong Nandi (Brothers in Adversity).
Honors & Recognition
Male, Han ethnicity, born in June 1937, died in October 2017, a native of Ezhou City, Hubei Province. National representative bearer of Huaji Opera, a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He received the title of Best Actor at the Third National Professional Xiaopin Competition and the First Drama Performance Academy Award marking the forty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Central Academy of Drama. He starred in the film The True Story of Ah Q, for which he won the Best Actor award at the Sixth Hundred Flowers Awards and the Golden Cane Award for Best Actor at the Second Vevey International Comedy Film Festival in Switzerland.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Huaji Opera Ⅳ-156
- Huaji Opera Ⅳ-156
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