Huang Jianxin (Director)

Born: 1954, Xi'an. 'Fifth Generation' director, although not technically a graduate of the Beijing Film Academy, but he did study some courses there over a year period after the 1982 graduation of the so-called 'Fifth Generation' graduates.
While at Xi'an Film Studio, he was spotted as one of the most promising assistant directors, and then-studio head Wu Tianming recommended he go take the intensive directing course at the BFA. Made an early short film which had censorship problems.made his first feature film The Black Cannon Incident in 1984, which in the context of post-Mao China under Deng Xiaoping was a particularly scathing and audacious piece of satire. His next two films continued to tread similar ground, being cynical satires and exposes of China's bureaucracy and underlying failure to truly modernise beyond surface rhetoric. The three of them together have been called a 'post-socialist trilogy'.

In recent years, he has apparently changed (or been forced to) in his filmmaking interests, and has made a series of state-commissioned propaganda epics.

References:
Pickowicz in New Chinese Cinemas, 54-.