Ma Sanli

Ma Sanli (Xiao'erjing: ﻣَﺎ صً لِ, simplified Chinese: 马三立; traditional Chinese: 馬三立; pinyin: Mǎ Sānlì; 1914 – 11 February 2003) was a Chinese comedian in the traditional Xiangsheng or "crosstalk" style.

Ma Sanli
Born	1 October 1914 Beijing, China
Died	11 February 2003(2003-02-11) (aged 88) Tianjin, China
Occupation	Xiangsheng actor
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	馬三立
Simplified Chinese	马三立
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Mǎ Sānlì

In this Chinese name, the family name is Ma.

Biography

Ma was born in Beijing; he was of the Hui ethnic group, and the son and grandson of practitioners of Xiangsheng. He was apprenticed to Zhou Deshan in 1929. Ma was a Chinese Muslim.

He came to be noted for avoiding complication in a way that kept his performances accessible to a mass audience. He pursued his art in Tianjin.

He became a widower in 1984. In December 2001, Ma retired from the Xiangsheng profession.

On 11 February 2003, he died in Tianjin after a long battle with cancer.

Works

• Nonsense
• Drunken old man
• Chasing
• Car horn
• Health check
• The charm of the comic
• Recipe
• Eat dumplings
• Sloppy
• Eighty-one floor
• Write Pair
• Meeting the fans
• Physiognomy
• Emotional and health
• Xijiangyue
• Boast Residential
• Remedies
• Pairs
• Three Character Classic
• Pull foreign films
• Buying Monkeys
• Meeting Fiend
• Yellow Crane Tower

External links

• Ma Sanli Biodata