Peng Xiaolian

Quick Facts

Full Name	Peng Xiaolian
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Jun 26, 1953(1953-06-26)
Age	71
Date Of Death	June 19, 2019,
Birthplace	Chaling
Country	China
Birth City	Hunan
Horoscope	Cancer

Peng Xiaolian Biography

Peng Xiaolian is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on June 26, 1953 in Chaling, Hunan, China.

When the Cultural Revolution began in 1966, her mother began to suffer brutality from the Red Guards. The ultimate terror of the family came in 1968 when her father was beaten to death. Even years later, Peng insisted on writing about the chaotic years and the aftermath in fictions like the novel Shanghai Story, the novella “Holding up the Book I Read Everyday” and the novella “Childhood: Secrets of Four Seasons”.

After the end of the Cultural Revolution, Peng entered Beijing Film Academy in 1978 to study directing, together with Li Shaohong, Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang and others, who would later be known as China’s Fifth Generation film directors.

Peng Xiaolian Net Worth

Peng Xiaolian is one of the richest Film Director from China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Peng Xiaolian 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Peng was born in June 1953 in Chaling County, Hunan, and grew up in Shanghai. She was the youngest daughter of Peng Baishan [zh] (1910–1968) and his wife Zhu Weiming. As a young child she experienced the terror of political persecution of her father. Baishan was the Minister of Propaganda in Shanghai when he was arrested for his association with Hu Feng, a literary critic and politician. Along with other associates of Hu, he was condemned as a core member of the “Hu Feng Counterrevolutionary Clique” and suffered in prison and labor camp. This family tragedy had a major influence on Xiaolian, who vividly depicts the terrifying memories in the 1987 novella “On My Back”, the 1997 short story “To That Faraway Place”, and in the 2009 documentary Storm under the Sun that she co-directed with Louisa Wei.

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In 2009, Peng co-directed (with Louisa Wei) the documentary Storm Under the Sun, an investigation of the Hu Feng affair which had implicated her father. Peng and Wei interviewed 26 people who had been denounced as “counterrevolutionaries” for their association with Hu Feng.

Facts & Trivia

Rachel Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in China. Peng Xiaolian celebrates birthday on June 26 of every year.

Peng Xiaolian (Chinese: 彭小莲 ; June 1953 – 19 June 2019) was a Chinese film director, scriptwriter and author. A graduate of the 1982 class of the Beijing Film Academy, she was a member of the Fifth Generation, although her style differed from the other members of this group. She is known for her series of films about Shanghai, including Once Upon a Time in Shanghai (1998), which won the Best Picture Award of the Huabiao Awards; Shanghai Story (2004), which won four Golden Rooster Awards including Best Director and Best Picture; and Shanghai Rumba (2006), based on the romance of the movie star couple Zhao Dan and Huang Zongying.