The filming artist Cui Wei
 Cui Wei (1912-1979), originally named Cui Jingwen, was a renowned
filming artist and playwright. Born into an impoverished peasant's family, he
escaped from the famine in the area and fled to Qingdao
in East China's Shandong
Province at the age of ten. He went to the Qingdao Tobacco Company to work
as a child laborer when he was only 12.
Later he pursued his study with the help and support of relatives and
friends. While he was studied in Lixian Middle School in Qingdao, he read a
number of progressive artistic books and periodicals, which inspired his
revolutionary thoughts and pursuit for progressive art.
He wrote trivial verses, and mocked the Nationalist Party's national anthem
to oppose the bloody killing of the communists in 1927. As a result, he was
expelled from school. Later he transferred to Qingzhou Middle School. This time
he was expelled from the region due to a passage he wrote which uncovered the
collusion between the landlords and the brigands that savagely oppressed the
peasants in the countryside.
In 1930, he entered the Shandong Provincial Experimental Theater after
passing its entrance examination. In 1932, he went back to Qingdao, and took
part in the League of Leftist Writers. He also organized a drama house which put
on stage many progressive plays that finally led to his arrest by the
authorities. In the summer of 1933, he went to Beijing
to study. He continued his drama activities, which also laid the foundation for
his active drama creation in Shanghai
from 1935.
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