Ching ling foo biography

  • Ching Ling Foo was the stage name of the Chinese magician Chee Ling Qua He is credited with being the first modern East Asian magician to achieve world fame.
  • Ching Ling Foo was the stage name of the Chinese magician Chee Ling Qua. He is credited with being the first modern East Asian magician to achieve world fame.
  • Ching Ling Foo, one of the greatest illusionists ever seen on American soil, along with his talented family of Chinese musicians and acrobats overcomes on.

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    Ching Ling Foo achieved what only the best sorcerer could: he passed from reality into fiction. The subject of a new biography, he was the inspiration for a character who enthralls the neophytes watching his show in Christopher Nolan’s 2006 movie The Prestige. In that homage to the art of deception set in nineteenth century London, Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) witness a version of Ching Ling Foo produce a giant waterbowl with swimming fish in it, apparently from nowhere, and they then observe him afterward as a frail elderly man who hobbles and has to be helped into a carriage—the real act of course is the charade of appearing feeble at all times off-stage.

    That was Foo. Born in Beijing, his repertoire included the Prestige’s crystal bowl, weighing just shy of a hundred pounds, sometimes containing even quacking ducks; breathing fire; tearing and restoring paper; endless fountains of water; pulling lengthy poles out his mouth; and beheading a boy

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    Ching Ling Foo

    Ching Ling Foo (Chinese: 金陵福; pinyin: Jīn Língfú) was the stage name of the Chinese magician Chee Ling Qua (Chinese: 朱連魁; pinyin: Zhū Liánkuí, 1854–1922). He is credited with being the first modern East Asian magician to achieve world fame.

    Biography

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    Ching Ling Foo was born in Beijing, Qing dynasty, on May 11, 1854,[1] He studied traditional Chinesemagic and was a well-respected performer in his homeland.

    During a typical performance, he stunned the audience by breathing smoke and fire or producing ribbons and a 15-foot-long (4.6 m) pole from his mouth. One of his sensational tricks had Chee using a sword to cut the head of a serving boy off at the shoulders. Then, to the amazement of the audience, the “beheaded” boy turns and exits the stage.

    Another trick involved producing a huge bowl, full to the brim with water, from out of an empty cloth. He would then pull a small child from the bowl.

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    Nome completo Zhu Liankui
    Nascimento 1854
    Pequim,China
    Morte 1922 (68 anos)
    desconhecido
    Nacionalidade chinês
    Ocupação ilusionista

    Ching Ling Soo(金陵福), nome artístico de Zhu Liankui (chinês: 朱連魁,1854–1922)) foi um ilusionista chinês e foi o primeiro mágico da Ásia moderna a alcançar a fama mundial. Foi a maior influencia ao mágico William Ellsworth Robinson.

    História

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    Um de seus truques sensacionais teve Foo usando uma espada para cortar a cabeça dem um menino na altura dos ombros. Então, para a surpresa do público, o rapaz "decapitado" se vira e sai do palco.

    Um grupo de mulheres chinesas com pés atados, incluindo a esposa de Foo, acompanhada do mágico fora da China e foi mostrad