Ma Sanli
Template:Short description Template:Infobox person Template:Family name hatnote Ma Sanli (Xiao'erjing: {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, Template:Zh; 1914 – 11 February 2003) was a Chinese comedian in the traditional Xiangsheng or "crosstalk" style.<ref>Xiangsheng Artists: Ma Sanli</ref>
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.<ref>相声泰斗马三立辞世 (Ma Sanli Dies at 90)</ref><ref name="China News" />
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<ref name="China News">Cross Talker Ma Sanli and Traditional Chinese Culture</ref>
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