Acting
Qianying Li
August 14, 1928 (age 98)Beijing, China
Li Qianying is an actress of Kunqu opera. She used to be named Li Lianzhu and Li Yongyin. At the age of nine, she entered the Chinese Opera Academy, where he studied art from Ruxiang, playing Huadan and Guimendan. Later, due to the disbandment of the theater school, she and his peers organized troupes to perform Peking Opera and modern dramas in Beijing and Tianjin. In 1949, she participated in the opera workshop sponsored by the Literature and Art Department of the Beijing Military Control Commission, and did publicity and performance work in the Federation of Literature and Art, and concurrently served as the deputy head of the Beijing Peking Opera Troupe.
