- Feng Xiaogang
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name = Feng Xiaogang
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birth_date = 1958
birth_place =Beijing ,China
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occupation = Director,Actor ,Writer
spouse = Xu FanFeng Xiaogang (zh-stp|s=冯小刚|t=馮小剛|p=Féng Xiǎogāng), (1958—) is a Chinese
film director .Biography
The son of a college professor and a factory nurse, he began his cinema work as an art design in Beijing Television Art Center in 1985. Later, he moved on to write screenplays. During this period, he worked closely with director
Zheng Xiaolong and writerWang Shuo (王朔).In the late 1990s, Feng established himself in a genre called "
Hesui Pian " (贺岁片)", or "New Year's Celebration Films" in Chinese cinema. He probably achieved his full fame as the director of the movie "Dream Factory" (1997). Having achieved success in the face of competition from Hollywood within mainland China, University of Minnesota professor, Jason McGrath, believes "The entertainment cinema of Feng Xiaogang represents a new model of a Chinese national cinema that positions itself vis-à-vis Hollywood." [cite web
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title = Metacinema for the Masses: Three Films by Feng Xiaogang
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publisher = Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
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url = http://mclc.osu.edu/jou/abstracts/mcgrath.htm
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accessdate = 2008-05-01]Feng is renowned for making
comedies with "Beijing style dialogs". It should also be noted that almost all of his films starGe You （葛优） in a major role.He married actress
Xu Fan (徐帆) in 1999.Filmography
As director
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