Tang Ti-sheng, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Tang Ti-sheng

Chinese opera playwright

Date of Birth: 18-Jun-1917

Place of Birth: Heilongjiang, China

Date of Death: 15-Sep-1959

Profession: playwright

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Tang Ti-sheng (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Táng Dísheng) (18 June 1917 – 15 September 1959), born Tang Kang-nien (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Táng Kangnián), 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 in St.
Paul's Hospital (Hong Kong).
He was survived by his second wife (??? of 17 years), their two daughters (???????) and two more children (son ??? and daughter ??? by his first wife ??? 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.