Ma Sanli

Ma Sanli (Xiao'erjing: ﻣَﺎ صً لِ, ; 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