Te Wei (1915 - 2010]) was a Chinese manhua artist and
animator. He is probably best known for the 1956 short animated film TheConceited General.
From about 1960 he worked in an ink-wash animation style
that was influenced by the painter Qi Baishi. Not permitted to carry on his
animation during the Cultural Revolution and placed in solitary confinement for
a year, Te Wei regained a position of artistic influence in the late 1970s and
the 1980s with a series of animated films in painterly style.
The 1980s would be an intense period for Te Wei, who found
himself in charge of some 500 workers at the studio. Still benefitting from
state funding, the studio produced some of its most acclaimed and experimental
work. Having stepped down as studio president in 1984, Te Wei directed the
feature film Monkey King Conquers the Demon (1984), based on Journey to the
West, and the acclaimed Feeling from Mountain and Water (1988), that would turn
out to be his last film.
In 1989, the communist party honored Te Wei by naming him
one of the four outstanding filmmakers in China's history.
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