Edward Yang إدوارد يانج
Biography
A Taiwanese filmmaker, born on November 6, 1947, in Shanghai, China. His works include In Our Time (1982), Yi Yi: A One and a Two... (2000), and A Brighter Summer Day (1991). Yang earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida. He later taught...Read more theater and film at the Taipei National University of the Arts. He was a member of the jury at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. In 2000, he became the first Taiwanese and the second Chinese, after the Hong Kong Wong Kar-wai, to win the Best Director Award at Cannes. After attending the USC School of Cinematic Arts for a while, he went to Seattle to work as an engineer. He married Tsai Chin in May 1985, but they got divorced. He later married Kai-Li Peng. He died on June 29, 2007, in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
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A Taiwanese filmmaker, born on November 6, 1947, in Shanghai, China. His works include In Our Time (1982), Yi Yi: A One and a Two... (2000), and A Brighter Summer Day (1991). Yang...Read more earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida. He later taught theater and film at the Taipei National University of the Arts. He was a member of the jury at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. In 2000, he became the first Taiwanese and the second Chinese, after the Hong Kong Wong Kar-wai, to win the Best Director Award at Cannes. After attending the USC School of Cinematic Arts for a while, he went to Seattle to work as an engineer. He married Tsai Chin in May 1985, but they got divorced. He later married Kai-Li Peng. He died on June 29, 2007, in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
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