Ma Sanli | |||||||
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| Born | 1 October 1914 | ||||||
| Died | 11 February 2003 (aged 88) Tianjin, China | ||||||
| Occupation | Xiangsheng actor | ||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 馬三立 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 马三立 | ||||||
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Ma Sanli (Xiao'erjing: ﻣَﺎ صً لِ, simplified Chinese: 马三立; traditional Chinese: 馬三立; pinyin: Mǎ Sānlì; 1914 – 11 February 2003) was a Chinese comedian in the traditional Xiangsheng or "crosstalk" style.[1]
Biography
Ma was born in Beijing; he was of the Hui ethnic group, and the son and grandson of practitioners of Xiangsheng. He was apprenticed to Zhou Deshan in 1929. Ma was a Chinese Muslim, his faith being Islam.
He came to be noted for avoiding complication in a way that kept his performances accessible to a mass audience. He pursued his art in Tianjin.
He became a widower in 1984. In December 2001, Ma retired from the Xiangsheng trade.
On 11 February 2003, he died in Tianjin after a long battle with cancer.[2][3]
Works
- Nonsense
- Drunken old man
- Chasing
- Car horn
- Health check
- The charm of the comic
- Recipe
- Eat dumplings
- Sloppy
- Eighty-one floor
- Write Pair
- Meeting the fans
- Physiognomy
- Emotional and health
- Xijiangyue
- Boast Residential
- Remedies
- Pairs
- Three Character Classic
- Pull foreign films
- Buying Monkeys
- Meeting Fiend
- Yellow Crane Tower[3]
References
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