Sun Yu (director)

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Sun.

Sun Yu 孫瑜
Born	21 March, 1900 Chongqing, China
Died	11 July, 1990 Shanghai, China
Occupation	Director, Screenwriter

Sun Yu (traditional Chinese: 孫瑜; simplified Chinese: 孙瑜; pinyin: Sūn Yú) (March 21, 1900 - July 11, 1990) was a major leftist film director active in the 1930s in Shanghai. Sun Yu was born in the city of Chongqing and educated first at Tsinghua University in Beijing before continuing his education in drama at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Columbia University in the 1920s.^[1] Beginning in the 1930s, Sun Yu began a collaboration with the leftist film studio, Lianhua, where he became one of the core group of "socially conscious" directors along with Cai Chusheng, Fei Mu, and others. In the 1950s, Sun was denounced by Mao Zedong, and his career effectively stalled. Sun died in Shanghai in 1990.

Selected filmography

Notes

1. ^ Pickowicz, Paul G. (Jan. 1991), "The Theme of Spiritual Pollution in Chinese Films of the 1930s", Modern China 17 (1): 49

External links

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• Sun Yu at the Internet Movie Database
• Sun Yu and National Cinema
• Biography
• Filmography

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