Ding Guangquan

In this Chinese name, the family name is Ding.

Ding Guangquan (14 October 1944 – 18 January 2018) was a Chinese comedian. He mainly performed Xiangsheng (crosstalk), a form of traditional Chinese comedy. He was a senior actor in the China Coal-Mine Art Troupe and had accepted over 40 students in his years teaching.^[2]

Ding Guangquan
Born	(1944-10-14)14 October 1944[1]
Died	18 January 2018(2018-01-18) (aged 73) Beijing, China
Nationality	Chinese
Genres	Xiangsheng
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	丁廣泉
Simplified Chinese	丁广泉
Hanyu Pinyin	Dīng Guǎngquán

Many of Ding's foreign students are now stars of comic dialogue on the Chinese stage today, such as Mark Rowswell (Dashan), Julien Guadfroy, Jesse Appell (艾杰西),^[3] and Liam Bates (Li Mu).^[4]

Ding's master was the famous Xiangsheng master, Hou Baolin, whom he studied under starting in 1973.