Edward Yang
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| Chinese name | 楊德昌 (traditional) | ||||||||
| Chinese name | 杨德昌 (simplified) | ||||||||
| Pinyin | Yáng Déchāng (Mandarin) | ||||||||
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November 6, 1947 Shanghai, Republic of China |
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| Died | June 29, 2007 (aged 59) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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Tsai Chin (1985–1995) Kaili Peng |
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| Ancestry | Meixian, Guangdong | ||||||||
| Alma mater | Nat'l Chiao Tung Univ. (BSEE) University of Florida (MSEE) USC Film School (Attended) | ||||||||
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Edward Yang (Chinese: 楊德昌; pinyin: Yáng Déchāng; November 6, 1947 – June 29, 2007) was a Taiwanese filmmaker. Yang, along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming-liang, was one of the leading film-makers of the Taiwanese New Wave and Taiwanese Cinema. He won the Best Director Award at Cannes for his 2000 film Yi Yi ("A One and a Two").
Edward Yang was born in Shanghai in 1947, and grew up in Taipei, Taiwan. After studying Electrical Engineering in National Chiao Tung University (located in Hsinchu, Taiwan), where he received his Bachelor's Degree (BSEE), he enrolled in the graduate program at the University of Florida, where he received his Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering in 1974. During this time and briefly afterwards, Yang worked at the Center for Informatics Research at the University of Florida. Yang always had a great interest in film ever since he was a child, but put away his aspirations in order to pursue a career in the high-tech industry.
A brief enrollment at USC Film School after graduating with his M.S.E.E. convinced Yang that the world of film was not for him - he thought USC film school's teaching methodologies were too commercial and mainstream oriented. Yang then applied and was accepted into Harvard's architecture school, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, but decided not to attend. Thereafter, he went to Seattle to work in microcomputers and defense software.
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