Ying, Ruocheng (Personal Name)

Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project.

Non-Latin script references not evaluated.

Little Buddha [MP] 1993: credits (cast, Ying Ruocheng)

LC data base, 4/1/94 (MLC hdg.: Ying, Ruocheng)

His Voices carry, c2008: ECIP t.p. (Ying Ruocheng) data view (Ying Ruocheng; b. 1929; d. 2003; grad. from Qinghua Univ. in 1950; founding member of the Beijing People's Art Theatre, where he performed as an actor and served as archivist, literary supervisor, and a director; translator of numerous plays from English into Chinese and vice versa, including works by William Shakespeare, Arthur Miller, and Ba Jin; btw. 1982 and 1993, visiting professor and guest director at several universities in the U.S. and received an honorary doctorate from Bowdoin Coll. in 1993; appointed China's vice minister of culture 1986-1990, and remained a member of the national congress until shortly before his death; featured actor in Bernardo Bertolucci's films The last emperor (1987) and Little Buddha (1993); grandson of Ying Lianzhi (1866-1926, founder of the Dagongbao newspaper and Furen Catholic University), son of Ying Qianli (1900-1969, a prominent scholar and educator in Taiwan), and father of actor, director, and television host Ying Da; Chinese stage and screen actor, theatre director, translator, and vice minister of culture from 1986-1990; imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution and devised unique strategies for survival)