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China Film Performance Art Academy
Chinese Film Performance Art Academy (), founded in January 1985, is a professional organization of Chinese actors. Awards Since 1985, the academy has bi-annually awarded the Golden Phoenix Awards. The "100 outstanding actors in 100 years of Chinese cinema" The Cina Film Performance Art Academy listed the "100 outstanding actors in 100 years of Chinese cinema" (), for the 100th anniversary of Chinese film industry in 2005. The list was officially announced at the 14th Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival () in Sanya on 12 November 2005. 1905-1949 Shangguan Yunzhu, Yu Yang, Yu Lan, Wang Renmei, Wang Danfeng, Feng Zhe, Tian Fang, Bai Yang, Shi Hui, Liu Qiong, Sun Daolin, Ruan Lingyu, Wu Yin, Ng Cho-Fan, Zhang Ping, Zhang Ruifang, Li Wei, Chen Qiang, Zhou Xuan, Jin Shan, Jin Yan, Hu Die, Zhao Dan, Xiang Kun, Qin Yi, Yuan Muzhi, Tao Jin, Huang Zongying, Shu Shi, Shu Xiuwen, Xie Tian, Lan Ma, Bao Fang, Li Lili, Wei Heling. 1949-1976 Yu Shizhi, Wang X ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, the most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the most populous city and financial center is Shanghai. Modern Chinese trace their origins to a cradle of civilization in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. The semi-legendary Xia dynasty in the 21st century BCE and the well-attested Shang and Zhou dynasties developed a bureaucratic political system to serve hereditary monarchies, or dyna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ng Cho-Fan
Ng, ng, or NG may refer to: * Ng (name) (黄 伍 吳), a surname of Chinese origin Arts and entertainment * N-Gage (other), a handheld gaming system * Naked Giants, Seattle rock band * '' Spirit Hunter: NG'', a video game Businesses and organizations * Lauda Air (airline code NG) * National Geographic (other) * National Grid plc, a British multinational electricity and gas utility company * National Guard (other) * ''Nederlandse Gidsen'' (Dutch Guides), one of the Scouting organisations that evolved into the national Scouting organisation of the Netherlands * Newgrounds, an American entertainment and social media website and company * Northrop Grumman Corporation, a major United States defense contractor * Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft, a German scientific society Language * Ndonga dialect (ISO 639 alpha-2 ng), a dialect of Oshiwambo * Ng (digraph), a pair of letters representing various sounds * Ng (Arabic letter) * Ng (Filipi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tao Jin (actor)
Tao Jin (陶金 22 January 1916 - 28 September 1986) was a popular Chinese actor of the 1940s and 1950s.Lily Xiao Hong Lee ''Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: V. 2: Twentieth Century'' 131549924X - 2016 - In the meantime, Li Lihua had grown closer to the actor Tao Jin, who co-starred with her in Sworn to the Sea (Haishi) in 1948 and A Cultivated Family (Shi lichuan jia) in 1950. They parted at the beginning of 1951, however, after repeated calls from Tao Jin's wife that he return to Shanghai. In the early 1950s, another new studio appeared in Hong Kong called Changcheng. References External linksFilmography {{authority control Chinese male film actors 1916 births 1986 deaths 20th-century Chinese male actors Male actors from Suzhou Chinese filmmakers Chinese film directors Film directors from Jiangsu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuan Muzhi
Yuan Muzhi (; March 3, 1909 – January 30, 1978) was an actor and director from the Republic of China and later of the People's Republic of China. Career As an actor, Yuan became extremely popular and took on the nickname "man with a thousand faces." He gained prominence in a series of films for the leftist Diantong Film Company. These included the film ''Plunder of Peach and Plum'' (1935) (which Yuan also wrote) and the movie ''Sons and Daughters in a Time of Storm'' (1935) where he was one of the two original singers (along with Gu Menghe) of the movie's theme song, '' The March of the Volunteers'', which later became the national anthem of China. His career eventually brought him to director's chair. Yuan's filmmaking debut, the innovative musical comedy ''Scenes of City Life'' (1935) (''Dushi fengguang''), was one of the earliest non-silent features made in China, as the Shanghai industry was finally transitioning to sound. The film's blend of screwball humor and romance r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qin Yi
Qin Yi (; 4 February 1922 – 9 May 2022) was a Chinese actress. She gained fame for her stage performances in the war-time capital Chongqing during the Second Sino-Japanese War. After the war, she became one of China's most popular film actresses throughout the 1950s and the 1960s, and was recognised as one of the country's top four actresses. Premier Zhou Enlai called her the "most beautiful woman in China". Early life and theatre career Qin Yi was born on 4 February 1922 to a wealthy Shanghai family. Her name at birth was Qin Dehe (). She was one of the many daughters in the family. She enjoyed watching movies and Ruan Lingyu (1910–1935) was her favourite actress. After the Japanese invasion of China in 1937, Qin fled to Wuhan and became active in anti-Japanese activities. When Wuhan also fell to the Japanese, she fled to the war-time capital Chongqing in 1938, and received actor training at the China Movie Studio. She joined several theatre groups, and acted in dozens of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xiang Kun
Xiang or Hsiang may refer to: *Xiang (place), the site of Hong Xiuquan's destruction of a Chinese idol early in the Taiping Rebellion *Xiang (surname), three unrelated surnames: Chinese: 項 and Chinese: 向 (both ''Xiàng'') and Chinese: 相 (''Xiāng'') *Xiang Chinese, a group of Chinese varieties spoken in Hunan *Xiang Island (simplified Chinese: 响沙; traditional Chinese: 響沙; pinyin: Xiǎngshā), a former island in the Yangtze estuary now forming part of Chongming Island in Shanghai *Xiang River, river in South China *Hunan, abbreviated in Chinese as 湘 (''Xiāng''), a province of China *Xiang, capital of the Shang dynasty during the reign of He Dan Jia People with the name Xiang *Half-brother of legendary Chinese leader Emperor Shun *Xiang of Xia (3rd millennium BC), fifth ruler of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty *Duke Xiang of Song (died 637 BC), a ruler of Sòng in the Spring and Autumn period *Duke Xiang of Jin (died 621 BC), a ruler of Jin *King Xiang of Zhou (died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhao Dan
Zhao Dan (June 27, 1915 – October 10, 1980) was a Chinese actor popular in the golden age of Chinese Cinema. Biography Zhao first became famous working in the Mingxing Film Company in the 1930s including playing opposite Zhou Xuan in '' Street Angel'' (1937). After the Sino-Japanese War, Zhao began a creative relationship with director Zheng Junli, with films such as the 1948 anti-Kuomintang drama-comedy, ''Crows and Sparrows''. Zhao remained on the mainland following the Communist victory in 1949 and continued to make films throughout the 1950s and 1960s notably in biographical films playing historical figures of Nie Er, Lin Zexu (both directed by Zheng Junli) and Li Shizhen. Zhao joined Communist Party of China in 1957. During the Cultural Revolution, he was persecuted and imprisoned for 5 years. He died of pancreatic cancer in Beijing in 1980. He was married to Ye Luqian in 1936. When he was arrested by Sheng Shicai in Xinjiang Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hu Die
Hu Die (; 1907 or 1908 – April 23, 1989), also known by her English name Butterfly Wu, was a Chinese actress during the 1920s and 1930s. Like many artistes and writers, she was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution. Biography Early life Hu Die was born Hu Ruihua () in Shanghai in 1907 or 1908, and moved to Guangzhou (Canton) when she was nine. Her father then became the general inspector of the Beijing–Fengtian Railway, and she spent much of her adolescence in northern cities including Beijing, Tianjin and Yingkou, and learned to speak perfect Mandarin, which later proved to be a great advantage when the Chinese cinema transitioned from silent films to talkies. In 1924, Hu Ruihua moved back to Shanghai with her family. When China (Zhonghua) Film School, the country's first film actor training school, opened, she was the first student to enroll. She adopted the professional name "Hu Die", meaning "butterfly", and Butterfly Wu in English (Wu is the Shanghainese pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jin Yan
Jin Yan (; April 7, 1910 – December 27, 1983), also known by his English name Raymond King, was a Korean-born Chinese actor who gained fame during China's golden age of cinema, based in Shanghai. His acting talents and good looks gained him much popularity in the 1930s. He was dubbed the "Film Emperor" and the "Rudolph Valentino Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), known professionally as Rudolph Valentino and nicknamed The Latin Lover, was an Italian actor based in the United States who starred ... of Shanghai".Chinese Film Classics: Jin Yan: https://chinesefilmclassics.org/jin-yan-%e9%87%91%e7%84%b0/ Filmography References Bibliography * * External links * Chinese Film Classics: Jin Yan scholarly website chinesefilmclassics.org contains information about Jin Yan and English translations of his films ''The Peach Girl, Wild Rose'', and ''The Great Road''''The Peach Girl'' (1931)with Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jin Shan
Jin Shan (9 August 1911 – 7 July 1982), formerly known as Zhao Mo (), was a Chinese drama and film actor, and director. He served as a member of the Chinese Federation of Literary and Art Circles, vice chairman of the Chinese Dramatists Association, and also a member of the Fifth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He was known as the "Drama emperor". Early life Jin Shan was born on 1911 in Suzhou. In 1918, he attended a private school for education and developed interest in opera and theatre, while attending an opera at Suzhou. Jin Shan later moved to Shanghai where continued his education at the Xuhui High School. In 1927, he was expelled from the school for offending the priest. Later, he served as a soldier in the Seventeenth Teaching Corps of the Kuomintang in Xiyuan Temple. During this time, Jin was adopted by the Shanghai gangster Du Yuesheng, and encouraged to join the Chinese Communist Party in order to facilitate collab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhou Xuan
Zhou Xuan (; born Su Pu (); August 1, 1920 – September 22, 1957), also romanized as Chow Hsuan, was an iconic Chinese singer and film actress. By the 1940s, she had become one of China's Seven Great Singing Stars. She was the best known of the seven, nicknamed the "Golden Voice", and had a concurrent movie career until 1954. She recorded more than 200 songs and appeared in over 40 films in her career. Early life Zhou was born Su Pu (), but was separated from her natural parents at a young age and raised by adoptive parents. She spent her entire life searching for her biological parents but her parentage was never established until after her death. According to later family research, a relative who was an opium addict took her at the age of 3 to another city and sold her to a family named Wang, who named her Wang Xiaohong. She was later adopted by a family named Zhou, changing her name to Zhou Xiaohong. At the age of 13, she took Zhou Xuan as her stage name, 'Xuan' () ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen Qiang (actor)
Chen Qiang (; 1918 – 26 June 2012) was a Chinese film and stage actor and comedian best known for his performances as villains/antagonists in '' The Red Detachment of Women'', ''The White Haired Girl'' and ''Devils on the Doorstep''. Chen began his career as an actor in 1947 and has played more than 40 different characters since then. His second son, Chen Peisi, is also a well-known actor and comedian. Biography Chen was born Chen Qingsan () to a poor family in Xujiahe Township of Ningjin County, in Hebei province. When he was a child, he relocated to Taiyuan, Shanxi with his parents. In 1936, he attended Taiyuan Youth Theatre and Xinsheng Theatre; both were progressive groups organized by the Communist Party of China. In 1938, he went to Yan'an to study acting at Lu Xun Academy of Arts. After graduating in 1939 he joined the Song and Dance Troupe of Shanxi-Chahaer-Hebei Border Region. Chen joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1942, and made his comedy debut in ''The Second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
