Zhong Acheng often known by his pseudonym Ah Cheng, is a Chinese author and screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

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In 1979, together with Ma Desheng, Wang Keping, Huang Rui

Huang Rui

Huang Rui is a Chinese artist known for his social and cultural criticism. He is widely considered one of the founding members of the Chinese Contemporary art movement, and continues to produce work that reflects the concerns of a highly socially engaged artist through historical references and...

, Li Shuang

Li Shuang (artist)

Li Shuang , born in Beijing in 1957, is a contemporary Chinese artist.Li Shuang’s works testify to her painful personal and artistic journey. She grew up in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution within a family of intellectuals...

, Qu Leilei

Qu Leilei

Qu Lei Lei is a modern Chinese calligrapher, painter and author currently based in the UK.Qu grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution and spent some time forced to work as a lumberjack after his parents were branded capitalists...

, Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist, active in sculpture, installation, architecture, curating, photography, film, and social, political and cultural criticism. Ai collaborated with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron as the artistic consultant on the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008...

, A Cheng founded the Stars Group (XingXing), an assembly of untrained, experimental artists who challenged the strict tenets of Chinese politics. As a political and artistic group, they staged exhibitions around Beijing, making way for avant-garde art in China.

Screenplays

• Painted Skin
  Painted Skin (1993 film)
  Painted Skin is a 1993 Hong Kong supernatural horror film starring Adam Cheng, Joey Wong, Sammo Hung, Lam Ching Ying, and Wu Ma. It was directed by King Hu....
  
   (Hua pi zhi yinyang fawang, 1993)
• Springtime in a Small Town
  Springtime in a Small Town
  Springtime in a Small Town is a 2002 Chinese film directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang. The film is a remake of director Fei Mu's 1948 film, Spring in a Small Town...
  
   (Xiao cheng zhi chun, 2002)
• The Go Master
  The Go Master
  The Go Master is a 2006 biopic by director Tian Zhuangzhuang of the renowned twentieth century Go master Wu Qingyuan, better known by his adopted Japanese name of Go Seigen...
  
   (Wu qingyuan, 2006)

Novels

• Qi wang, (The Chess Master
  The Chess Master
  The Chess Master, or 棋王 , is a novel by Chinese writer Zhong Acheng, writing under his pseudonym A Cheng. This short novel features characters who were part of the Down to the Countryside Movement after the Cultural Revolution...
  
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• Hai zi wang, (The King of Children)
• Shu wang, (The King of Trees")
• The King of Trees A Collection of his three novels Qi wang (The King of Chess) Shu wang (King of Trees) Hai zi wang (King of Children) published by New Directions Publishing in 2010.
• Three Kings: Three Stories from Today's China (trans. by Bonnie McDougall), published 1990 by Collins-Harvill (London).

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