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Chen Yanyan
Chen Yanyan (; 12 January 1916 – 7 May 1999), born Chen Jianyan, was a Chinese actress and film producer in the cinema of Republic of China (1912–1949), British Hong Kong and Taiwan. Life Chen was born as Chen Jianyan in Ningbo, China in 1916. Chen was obsessed with films as a young girl. When she was 14 she visited the set of "Spring Dream in the Old Capital (故都春梦)" which the Lianhua Film Company was recording in Beijing. She returned each day after attending the Sacred Heart Girls School and struck up a conversation with Cai Chusheng who was to shortly direct his own films. She was given a chance to appear in the film as a screen test by the director Sun Yu. Her appearance was not included in the film as she had been cast as a prostitute and she looked too young for that to be acceptable. However the film was successful she was offered a job but it was only with great difficulty that she persuaded her father. The film company sent around one of their actresses, Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen (surname)
Chen () () is a common Chinese-language surname and one of the most common surnames in Asia. It is the most common surname in Taiwan (2010) and Singapore (2000). Chen is also the most common family name in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Macau, and Hong Kong. It is the most common surname in Xiamen, the ancestral hometown of many overseas Hoklo. Chen was listed 10th in the ''Hundred Family Surnames'' poem, in the verse 馮陳褚衛 (Feng Chen Chu Wei). In Cantonese, it is usually romanized as Chan (as in Jackie Chan), most widely used by those from Hong Kong. Chan is also widely used in Macao and Malaysia. It is also sometimes spelled Chun. In many Southern Min dialects (including dialects of Hainan, Fujian, and Taiwan), the name is pronounced Tan, while in Teochew, it is pronounced Tang. In Hakka and Taishanese, the name is spelled Chin. In Wu it is pronounced Zen or Tchen. In Vietnam, this surname is written as Trần (in Quốc Ngữ) and is 2nd most common. In Thailand, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Renmei
Wang Renmei (; December 1914 – 2 April 1987) was a famous Chinese actress and singer nicknamed the "Wildcat of Shanghai". She was mainly active during the 1930s, and her most notable film was the 1934 '' Song of the Fishermen'' (available online with English subtitles) directed by Cai Chusheng, which was the first Chinese film to win an international prize. In 2005, she was chosen as one of the 100 best actors of the 100 years of Chinese cinema. Wang was married to Jin Yan, the Korean-born "Emperor of Chinese Cinema", and later to Ye Qianyu, a prominent artist. Early life and career beginnings Wang Renmei was born and grew up in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, where her father Wang Zhengquan (王正权) was a mathematics teacher at the Changsha No. 1 Normal School. Born Wang Shuxi (王庶熙), she was the youngest of seven children. One of her father's students was Mao Zedong, a fellow Hunan native who would become China's top leader. As a young man, Mao lived in Wan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lianhua Symphony
''Lianhua Symphony'' () (also known as ''Symphony of Lianhua'') is a 1937 Chinese anthology film. Produced by Lianhua Film Company, it served as a showcase of the studio's possibilities. It consists of eight segments of various duration and genre, directed by eight prominent directors of the era: Cai Chusheng, Fei Mu, He Mengfu, Situ Huimin, Shen Fu, Sun Yu, Tan Youliu, and Zhu Shilin. Production overview Lianhua Film Company was the biggest film company of China in the 1930s. Eight young directors chosen to participate in the project were already praised for their previous works. Most of them became even more important several years later and today their films are considered classics. Some, like Sun Yu's ''The Big Road'' (1934), Cai Chusheng's ''The Spring River Flows East'' (1947), Fei Mu's ''Spring in a Small Town'' (1948), or Shen Fu's ''Myriad of Lights'' (1949) often reappear on many "best Chinese films of all time" lists. Zhu Shilin became a prominent figure in Hong Kong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song Of China
''Song of China'' () also known as ''Filial Piety'' is a 1935 Chinese film directed by Fei Mu and Luo Mingyou for the Lianhua Film Company. Unlike earlier Lianhua films that railed against traditional society, ''Song of China'' is representative of the New Life Movement of Chiang Kai-shek, which celebrates traditional Confucian values. ''Song of China'' is one of the few Chinese films made in the 1930s to be screened in the United States. The film is available with English translation on YouTube.''Song of China'' (''Tianlun'', 1935), in the Directory of Early Chinese Films: https://chinesefilmclassics.org/song-of-china-1935/ Cast *Zheng Junli *Chen Yen-yen *Lim Cho Cho * Zhang Yi * Lai Cheuk-Cheuk Plot A young man (Zheng Junli Zheng Junli (December 6, 1911 – April 23, 1969) was a Chinese actor and director born in Shanghai and who rose to prominence in the golden age of Chinese Cinema. His films ''The Spring River Flows East'' and ''Crows and Sparrows'' are widely c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Road
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Light Of Maternal Instinct
''The Light of Maternal Instinct'' (also translated as ''The Glory of Motherhood''Black King of Songs ) is a 1933 Chinese drama film directed by , starring Lai Cheuk-Cheuk, , and . It is a since it lacks sound for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Spray Of Plum Blossoms
''A Spray of Plum Blossoms'' () is a 1931 silent Chinese film directed by Bu Wancang and starring Ruan Lingyu, Wang Cilong, Lim Cho Cho, and Jin Yan. It is a loose adaptation of William Shakespeare's ''The Two Gentlemen of Verona''. The film is one of several collaborations between Bu Wancang and two of the top Chinese movie stars of the day Ruan Lingyu and the Korean-born Jin Yan and was produced by the Lianhua Film Company. The film is noted for its attempted "Westernized stylings" including its surreal use of decor, as well as women-soldiers with long hair. The film also had English subtitles, but as some scholars have noted, since few foreigners watched these films, the subtitles were more to give off an air of the West rather than to serve any real purpose.Pang, Laikwan, ''Building a New China in Cinema: The Chinese Left-Wing Cinema Movement'', (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), 26.Bi-qi Beatrice Lei, "Paradox of Chinese Nationalism: ''Two Gentlemen of Verona'' in Silen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love And Duty (1931 Film)
''Love and Duty'' is a 1931 Chinese silent film, directed by Bu Wancang and starring Ruan Lingyu and Jin Yan. Long considered lost, it was accidentally rediscovered in Uruguay in the 1990s, and almost immediately hailed as one of the greatest Chinese silent films. Like many Chinese silent films, it features both Chinese and English intertitles. Ruan Lingyu portrays two different characters, and the split screen technology is used for scenes where both characters appear. Production history Based on a novel by Polish expatriate S. Rosen-hoa ("Ho Ro-se"), who had married a Chinese engineer, ''Love and Duty'' became one of the first films produced by the leftist Lianhua Film Company. The film was very popular for its day, in no small part due to the pairing of Ruan, who was already a darling of the Shanghai film industry, and Jin Yan, a Korean-born actor who was one of the major leading men in early Chinese cinema. Plot The film tells the story of Yang Naifan (Ruan Lingyu) who runs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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''The Young Companion'', known as ''Liángyǒu'' () in Chinese, was a pictorial with captions in both Chinese and English, published in Shanghai beginning February 1926. Although the direct translation of ''Liangyou'' is "Good Companion", the magazine bore the English name ''The Young Companion'' on the cover. Called an "iconic magazine" and "a visual shortcut for 'old Shanghai'", the magazine has proven useful in modern times to examine the glamorous side of colonial-era Shanghai. It may have been the most influential large-scale comprehensive pictorial in the 1920s, at least in Asia. It ceased publication in 1945. There were 174 issues in total, which includes the two special issues not given monthly issue numbers, the ''Sun Yat-sen Memorial Special Issue'' and the ''Eighth Anniversary'' issue. Since 1945, it has been repeatedly reestablished, but the impact has not been the same. The magazine ran a mixture of content, including photography, art, literature and sports. Histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Center Stage (1991 Film)
''Center Stage'' (), also known as ''Actress'' and ''Yuen Ling-yuk'', is a 1991 Cinema of Hong Kong, Hong Kong film, directed by Stanley Kwan. Maggie Cheung won Best Actress award at Berlin International Film Festival in 1992 for her delicate portraiture of silent film star Ruan Lingyu. Plot The film is based on a true story: the tragic life of China's first prima donna of the silver screen, Ruan Lingyu. This movie chronicles her rise to fame as a movie actress in Shanghai during the 1930s. Nicknamed the "Chinese Greta Garbo, Garbo," Ruan Lingyu began her acting career when she was 16 years old and committed suicide at age 24. The film alternates between present scenes (production talks between director Kwan, Cheung, and co-star Carina Lau, interviews of witnesses who knew Ruan), re-creation scenes with Cheung (as Ruan, acting inside this movie), and extracts from Ruan's original films including her final two films ''The Goddess (1934 film), The Goddess'' and ''New Women''. Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaw Brothers Studio
Shaw Brothers (HK) Ltd. () was the largest film production company in Hong Kong, and operated from 1925 to 2011. In 1925, three Shaw brothers— Runje, Runme, and Runde—founded Tianyi Film Company (also called "Unique") in Shanghai, and established a film distribution base in Singapore, where Runme and their youngest brother, Run Run Shaw, managed the precursor to the parent company, Shaw Organisation. Runme and Run Run took over the film production business of its Hong Kong-based sister company, Shaw & Sons Ltd, and in 1958 a new company, "Shaw Brothers," was set up. In the 1960s, Shaw Brothers established what was once the largest privately owned studio in the world, Movietown. The company's most famous works include ''The Love Eterne'', ''The One-Armed Swordsman'', ''Come Drink with Me'', ''King Boxer'', ''Executioners from Shaolin'', '' Five Deadly Venoms'', and ''The 36th Chamber of Shaolin''. Over the years the film company produced around 1,000 films, some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Hao (actor)
Wang Hao may refer to: Sports * Wang Hao (swimmer) (born 1962), Chinese * Wang Hao (table tennis, born 1966), Chinese *Wang Hao (table tennis, born 1983), Chinese *Wang Hao (racewalker) (born 1989), Chinese *Wang Hao (chess player) (born 1989), Chinese chess grandmaster *Wang Hao (footballer, born 1989), Chinese * Wang Hao (footballer, born 1993), Chinese *Wang Hao (diver) (born 1992), Chinese * Wang Hao (canoeist) (born 1993), Chinese sprint canoeist * Wang Hao (Paralympic athlete) (born 1995), Chinese Paralympic athlete (2020 Summer Paralympics: Opening Ceremony flag-bearer) Other * Wang Hao (singer) (born 1987), Chinese boy band singer *Hao Wang (academic) (1921–1995), Chinese American logician, philosopher, and mathematician *Wang Hao (politician) Wang Hao (; born October 1963) is a Chinese politician who is the current acting governor of Zhejiang, in office since September 30, 2021. Wang entered the workforce in July 1982, and joined the Chinese Communist Party in January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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