What is Ni Zhen?
{{Infobox person | name = Ni Zhen | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1938|7|}} | birth_place = [[Shanghai]], China | death_date = {{death date and age|2022|12|22|1938|7|18|df=y}} | death_place = | monuments = | residence = | nationality = Chinese | occupation = screenwriter and professor | known_for = | relatives = | awards = }} '''Ni Zhen''' (18 July 1938 – 22 December 2022) was a Chinese screenwriter and professor.<ref name=ref2>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64173824 |title=China Covid: Celebrity deaths spark fears over death toll|work=[[BBC]]|date=6 January 2023|access-date=11 January 2023|language=en}}</ref><ref name=ref3>{{cite web|url=https://www.rtvonline.com/english/international/9606/Renowned-artists-actors-opera-singers-dies-amid-recent-COVID-wave-in-China |title=Renowned artists, actors, opera singers dies amid recent COVID wave in China|work=rtvonline.com|date=29 December 2022|access-date=11 January 2023|language=nl}}</ref> As screenwriter, Ni was most known for his work on the 1991 film ''[[Raise the Red Lantern]]''. Although the [[screenplay]] was approved by Chinese [[Censorship in China|censors]],<ref>{{cite magazine | magazine = TV Guide | title = Raise the Red Lantern Review | url = http://www.tvguide.com/movies/raise-red-lantern/review/128900 | access-date = 6 August 2007 | quote = Though Zhang's screenplay for RAISE THE RED LANTERN ... got a stamp of approval from the Chinese censors, the finished production was banned at home while playing to great praise abroad.}}</ref> the final version of the film was banned in China for a period.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.filmforum.org/films/redlantern.html| title=Zhang Yimou's RAISE THE RED LANTERN| quote=Originally banned in China| access-date=6 August 2007| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927012323/http://www.filmforum.org/films/redlantern.html| archive-date=27 September 2007}}.</ref><ref>''Zhang Yimou''. Frances K. Gateward, Yimou Zhang, Univ. Pres