Ma Ji
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Biography
Ma was born in Tianjin on 2 August 1934. After the Communists took over mainland China, Ma started to work in Xinhua bookstore. He joined the Central Broadcasting Recitation and Ballad Troupe as a professional xiangsheng performer in 1956. He studied under Hou Baolin and became a seventh-generation xiangsheng performer. He got his stage name Ma from the film Mattie the Goose-boy (1950 film), which is based on the poem of the same name by Mihály Fazekas.[1]
As a notable xiangsheng master and performer, Ma created his own art style and made great contributions to China's Xiangsheng art.[2]
In the mid to late 1980s, together with his disciple Zhao Yan, he frequently travelled to Singapore on performance tours and proved to be very popular there as well.[3]
Ma was also a member of the 5th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.[4]
Ma died of a heart attack on 20 December 2006 at Beijing, China.[5]
Famous works
- "Ode to Mountain Climbers"
- "The Portrait"
- "Dispute of the Five Sense Organs"[1]
- Performed with many comedians together in “Five Officers Contend for Fame”[2]
Dialogues
- Ode to Friendship
- Storm on the State
- Multistory Restaurant [3]
Monlogues
- “The Universal Brand Cigarette” playing a cigarette salesman with a bad product and satirizing newly rich Chinese preoccupation with brand names.[4]
References
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- ↑ 马季：我与侯宝林的恩怨是怎样结下的. Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- ↑ Mainstay in the Field of Comic Dialogue: Ma Ji Script error: No such module "webarchive".
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- ↑ CPPCC member list
- ↑ Xiangsheng master Ma Ji dies at the age of 72 (馬季去世，享年72歲)
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External links
- Ma, Chinese comedian famed for satirical sketches, dies at 72, The Associated Press via the International Herald Tribune
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