Tang Ti-sheng
Tang Ti-sheng | |||||||
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Tang Ti-sheng in 1959 or before | |||||||
| Born | Tang Kang-nien (唐康年) June 18, 1917 Heilongjiang, China | ||||||
| Died | September 15, 1959 (aged 42) | ||||||
| Other names | Tong Tik-sang Dik-Sang Tong Tong Dik Sang | ||||||
| Spouses | Sit Gok Ching
(m. 1938; div. 1942)Cheng Meng-har
(m. 1942; died 1959) | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 唐滌生 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 唐涤生 | ||||||
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Tang Ti-sheng (Chinese: 唐滌生; pinyin: Táng Díshēng) (18 June 1917 – 15 September 1959), born Tang Kang-nien (Chinese: 唐康年; pinyin: Táng Kāngnián), was a Cantonese opera playwright, scriptwriter, and film director. His contributions to Cantonese opera significantly influenced Hong Kong's reform and development of the genre beginning in the late 1930s.
During his twenty-year career, Tang composed over 400 operas and achieved immense popularity within the Cantonese opera scene. He also wrote the film scripts adapted from his own operas, directed the movies and at times acted in them himself.
He collapsed in the Lee Theatre and died later of intracerebral hemorrhage in St. Paul's Hospital (Hong Kong). He was survived by his second wife (鄭孟霞 of 17 years), their two daughters (唐淑珠、唐淑儀) and two more children (son 唐寶堯 and daughter 唐淑嫻 by his first wife 薛覺清 of five years). A fifth (irrespective of age) child Cheng mentioned in a 1989 interview, after the passing of Yam Kim Fai, is not listed on Tang's headstone.