The Peony Pavilion
Born in 1958 Chen worked as a film critic before debuting as a director in 1989 with "School Girl". In the 1990s, he continued to explore the female perspective with "Treasure Island", "The Peony Pavilion" (inspired by traditional drama of the same name) and anti-romantic comedy "The Personals". The latter, in which a single woman searches for Mr. Right on a series of blind dates, screened in Cannes' Un Certain Regard sidebar and was distributed in Asia, Europe and North America.