Cao Baoping () is a

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film director. He has emerged in recent years as a figure in China's "midrange" cinema industry. Some industry watchers, like ''

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'', have situated directors like Cao between the older fifth generation directors, such as

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, who have achieved major international and box-office success, and the more "underground" sixth generation directors, like

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and

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Directorial career

Cao Baoping graduated from the

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in 1989, and spent most of the 1990s teaching

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at his alma mater. Cao would go on to expand into directing television and television films, co-directing the television film ''Absolute Emotion'' in 2001. His solo debut as director was 2006's '' Trouble Makers'', a satirical black comedy about a village taking revenge on a gang of hoodlums. Due to its rough content, ''Trouble Makers'' faced a host of problems from censors and spent six years in gestation before finally being released. The film premiered at the

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, where it was called by ''Variety's'' Derek Elley as a standout entry. In 2008, Cao followed up ''Trouble Makers'' with ''

The Equation of Love and Death ''The Equation of Love and Death'' () is a 2008 Chinese dramatic film written and directed by Cao Baoping and starring Zhou Xun. The film is a Chinese (Huayi Brothers) and Hong Kong (Sundream Motion Pictures) co-production. It is Cao's second solo ...

'', starring

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. The film was well received and Cao would win a best new director award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival for his efforts.

Filmography

References

External links

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Cao Baoping
at the Chinese Movie Database

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