Emily Tang () is a Chinese director, writer and actress whose films have won awards at various international film festivals. Her work include ''Conjugation (2001)'', ''Perfect Life 2008'' and ''

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(2012)''.

Biography

Tang was born in 1970 in

Sichuan Province Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...

and grew up in Beijing. She studied French literature at Peking University and later earned a master's degree in Drama from the

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. After attending the

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to study directing, she worked at

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producing documentaries. In 2001 she made her directorial debut with the film ''Conjugation'' (动词变位) for which she received special mention at the Locarno Film Festival. A few years later her second film ''Perfect Life'' (完美生活) was screened in Venice and won the Dragons & Tigers award

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. In 2012 she released her third film entitled ''

'', which focused on the consequences of China's One Child policy. The film went on to win the HKIFF's Young Cinema Competition.

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* * 1970 births Living people Actresses from Sichuan Chinese women film directors Chinese film actresses Writers from Sichuan Film directors from Sichuan {{China-writer-stub