Ma Sanli
# Ma Sanli

Ma Sanli (Xiao'erjing: ﻣَﺎ صً لِ, simplified Chinese: 马三立; traditional Chinese: 馬三立; pinyin: Mǎ Sānlì; 1914 – 11 February 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 11 February 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
