Teng Wenji

Teng Wenji was born in Beijing on 8 November 1944, according to TVmao. In 1964 he entered the directing department of the Beijing Film Institute, then, during the Cultural Revolution, served four years in the army from 1969. Posted in 1973 to the Xi'an studio, he was first a script supervisor there, and directed his first feature film in 1979. According to TVmao, he moved in 1993 to the Beijing studio and founded his own production company the same year; he was elected in 1992 vice-president of the Chinese directors' association.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaThe Ballad of the Yellow River黃河謠Teng Wenji · 1989Cinema