Wang Ping

Biography

Ping Wang is a Chinese film director and actress. She is considered to be the first female director in the People's Republic of China. Leftist womens' liberation became a major influence early in her life and she was a long time supporter of the communist revolution.

Her work was financially supported by the state, which provided her with significant access to filmic resources, allowing her to learn the techniques of filmmaking through practice and experiment with film form. She became a respected and influential director.

Because gender equality was a significant part of the Communist Party’s plan for economic reform, the following two decades would see a rise in the number of female directors in China.

Movies with Wang Ping

• The Spring River Flows East 1947 · ★ 6.7
• The Lights of Ten Thousand Homes 1948 · ★ 6.4
• Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon 1947 · ★ 6.3

Movies directed by Wang Ping

• The East Is Red 1965 · ★ 6.1
• The Eternal Wave 1958 · ★ 6.4
• The Story of Liubao 1957 · ★ 5.0
• Locust Tree Village 1962 · ★ 5.0
• Sentinel Under the Neon Lights 1964 · ★ 8.5
• Beautiful Homeland 1959
• We are the 8th Route Army Battalion 1978
• Song of the chinese revolution 1986
• The Area of Menglongsha 1960
• Songs of the Long March 1976
• Breaking Through the Darkness 1956
• The Sun on the Roof of the World 1990