Sun Yu
Sun Yu was a Chinese screenwriter, translator and director (1900–1990). He was born in Chongqing and died in Shanghai.
Sun Yu
Public domain
- Born
- 1900. · Chongqing.
- Died
- 1990. · Shanghai.
- Nationality
- China.
- Occupation
- screenwriter, translator and director.
- Movements
- second generation Chinese cinema.
- Education
- Tsinghua University, University of Wisconsin–Madison and Columbia University.
- Known for
- Wild Flower and The Big Road.
- Languages
- Chinese.
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Sun Yu was a Chinese screenwriter, translator and director (1900–1990). He was born in Chongqing and died in Shanghai.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Note VALÉORINE
No house-authored Note is published until its assertions and sources pass the VALÉORINE evidence contract. The documentary article remains available in full while that enrichment is being consolidated.
Documentary enrichment in progress · no unsupported statement published
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Sun Yu. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
Documentary evidence
Evidence Panel
not yet certified
- Identity
- resolved
- Independent source families
- 0
- Admitted assertions
- 0
- Open conflicts
- 0
Authority files
gnd · 1220509442 · wikidata · Q1375817
In this article
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
1900
Sun Yu born at Chongqing.
1990
Sun Yu died at Shanghai.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Chongqing.
Birth place
Shanghai.
Death place
Primary material
Documents and archives
authority file
- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1220509442, Sun, Yu.
Unverified · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
reference work
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q1375817: Sun Yu
Reputable secondary · Wikidata
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
authority file
Gemeinsame Normdatei 1220509442, Sun, Yu.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Partially resolvedreference work
Partially resolved
Further particulars
Held on the record
Further particulars
Open the remaining particulars
Sun Yu is connected to 3 other published records in the VALÉORINE Encyclopedia.
Within the Encyclopedia
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 14 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Film memorabilia
37,408 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Sun HongleiPerson
- Sun MingmingPerson
- Sun ShuyunPerson
- Sun WeishiPerson
- SunainaPerson
- Sunao KatabuchiPerson
- Sunara BegumPerson
- Sundar CPerson
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Sun Yu?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.