Cheng Ah
- Writer
- Actor
Ah Cheng, Chinese writer and painter. His father, the film critic Zhong
Dianfei, was forced by the Communist government to sell his library of
Chinese and Western classics, which Ah Cheng secretly read before
delivering them to the book dealer. During the Cultural Revolution, he
was sent to work on commune farms in Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, and
Yunnan. After returning to Beijing in the late 1970s he gained
recognition for his drawings, stories, essays, and film scripts. In the
mid-1980s he was a prominent advocate of "seeking roots" literature, a
movement by young writers to reestablish their cultural roots, which
had been lost during the social upheavals of the previous two decades.
He is best known for his series of "king" novellas.
