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Jin Suo Ji
''Jin Suo Ji'' (aka ''The Golden Cangue'' or ''The Golden Chain'') is a 1950 Hong Kong film written by Eileen Chang and directed by Shu-Sun Chiu. The story is based on Chang's 1943 novella of the same name. Plot The story revolves around a powerless daughter-in-law named Cao Qiqiao who suffers abuse for years from her stern mother-in-law, who ridicules Cao Qiqiao for being from a lower station. When she becomes a mother-in-law herself, however, she continues to perpetuate the cycle. Cast * Shia Jung Toshia Mori (としあ もり) was a Japanese actress who had a brief career in American films during the late 1920s and 1930s. Born as Toshiye Ichioka (としえ いちおか) in Kyoto, Mori moved to the United States when she was 10. Early lif ... References Hong Kong drama films 1950 films {{HongKong-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen Chang
Eileen Chang ( zh, t=張愛玲, s=张爱玲, first=t, w=Chang1 Ai4-ling2, p=Zhāng Àilíng；September 30, 1920 – September 8, 1995), also known as Chang Ai-ling or Zhang Ailing, or by her pen name Liang Jing (梁京), was a Chinese-born American essayist, novelist, and screenwriter. She is a well-known feminist in Chinese history, known for portraying life in the 1940s Shanghai and Hong Kong. Chang was born with an aristocratic lineage and educated bilingually in Shanghai. She gained literary prominence in Japanese-occupied Shanghai between 1943 and 1945. However, after the Communist takeover of China, she fled the country. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she was rediscovered by scholars such as C. T. Hsia and Shui Jing. Together with the re-examination of literary histories in the post-Mao era during the late 1970s and early 1980s, she rose again to literary prominence in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mainland China, and the Chinese diaspora communities."Chang, Eileen (Zhang Aili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shia Jung
Toshia Mori (としあ もり) was a Japanese actress who had a brief career in American films during the late 1920s and 1930s. Born as Toshiye Ichioka (としえ いちおか) in Kyoto, Mori moved to the United States when she was 10. Early life and career Mori began her film career in silent films in the late 1920s. In '' Mr. Wu'' (1927) she was credited as Toshia Ichioka. In ''Streets of Shanghai'' (1927), she was credited as Toshiye Ichioka. In ''The Man Without a Face'', she was also credited as Toshiye Ichioka, her birth name. (The film is presumed lost.) Finally, she entered the sound era as Toshia Mori. Mori played Miss Ling in '' The Hatchet Man'' (1932). In the same year, she played another Chinese character, "Butterfly", in ''Roar of the Dragon'', an action-melodrama produced by David O. Selznick. The storyline consisted of a group of Occidentals turning to an alcoholic riverboat captain Chauncey Carson (Richard Dix) for help when they are trapped at a hotel in a Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta in South China. With 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world. Hong Kong is also a major global financial centre and one of the most developed cities in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island from Xin'an County at the end of the First Opium War in 1841 then again in 1842.. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898... British Hong Kong was occupied by Imperial Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II; British administration resume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Golden Cangue
''The Golden Cangue'' (金鎖記) is a 1943 Chinese novella by Eileen Chang. The author's own English translation appeared in the anthology ''Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas: 1919–1949'' (1981) published by Columbia University Press. Fu Lei was an enthusiastic critic of the story, while C. T. Hsia considered it "the greatest novelette in the history of Chinese literature". Later the story was rewritten as the novel ''The Rouge of the North'' (怨女). Plot ''The Golden Cangue'' illustrates the decadence of the idle rich. Set in Shanghai, the novelette unfolds the degeneration of the heroine, Qi Qiao, and her family. The golden cangue symbolizes the destructiveness of the protagonist. Qi Qiao the main protagonist is the daughter of a sesame oil shopkeeper, she is forced to marry family Chiang for wealth. She's a benefit-finder in her life, but there are so many destructive elements in her life. She lived in an environment of denial. Originally, Qi Qiao was to be a concub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toshia Mori
Toshia Mori (としあ もり) was a Japanese actress who had a brief career in American films during the late 1920s and 1930s. Born as Toshiye Ichioka (としえ いちおか) in Kyoto, Mori moved to the United States when she was 10. Early life and career Mori began her film career in silent films in the late 1920s. In '' Mr. Wu'' (1927) she was credited as Toshia Ichioka. In ''Streets of Shanghai'' (1927), she was credited as Toshiye Ichioka. In ''The Man Without a Face'', she was also credited as Toshiye Ichioka, her birth name. (The film is presumed lost.) Finally, she entered the sound era as Toshia Mori. Mori played Miss Ling in '' The Hatchet Man'' (1932). In the same year, she played another Chinese character, "Butterfly", in ''Roar of the Dragon'', an action-melodrama produced by David O. Selznick. The storyline consisted of a group of Occidentals turning to an alcoholic riverboat captain Chauncey Carson ( Richard Dix) for help when they are trapped at a hotel in a Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong Drama Films
Hong may refer to: Places *Høng, a town in Denmark *Hong Kong, a city and a special administrative region in China *Hong, Nigeria *Hong River in China and Vietnam *Lake Hong in China Surnames *Hong (Chinese name) *Hong (Korean name) Organizations *Hong (business), general term for a 19th–20th century trading company based in Hong Kong, Macau or Canton *Hongmen (洪門), a Chinese fraternal organization Creatures *Hamsa (bird), a mythical bird also known was hong *Hong (rainbow-dragon) ''Hong'' or ''jiang'' () is a two-headed dragon in Chinese mythology, comparable with rainbow serpent legends in various cultures and mythologies. Chinese "rainbow" names Chinese has three "rainbow" words, regular ''hong'' , literary ''didong'' , ..., a two-headed dragon in Chinese mythology * ''Hong'' (genus), a genus of ladybird {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
