Ma Sanli

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

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, his faith being Islam.

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 trade.

On February 11, 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

• Cross Talker Ma Sanli and Traditional Chinese Culture