Chen Yunshang (; August 10, 1919 – June 29, 2016) was a Chinese film actress and singer of the 1930s and 1940s.
Biography
Chen was born in
Guangzhou
Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong Kon ...
but her family came from Taishan. She began her career in
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 Delt ...
in 1935 but in 1939 moved to
Shanghai
Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...
to star in ''
Mulan Joins the Army''.
Chen married
Tang Yuhan
Tang Yuhan, or Hans Tang (; 1913 – 25 May 2014) was a Hong Kong-Chinese oncologist and businessman. He founded the Sino-Belgium Cancer Hospital of Radiation Therapy in Shanghai and served as president of the Hong Kong Chinese Medical Assoc ...
, a Shanghai doctor, in 1943. They subsequently moved to Hong Kong. She retired in 1952.
Filmography
Films
This is a partial list of films.
*1939 ''
Mulan Joins the Army''
*1940 ''Bi yu zan''
*1942 ''Bo ai''
*1943 ''
Eternity
Eternity, in common parlance, means Infinity, infinite time that never ends or the quality, condition, or fact of being everlasting or eternal. Classical philosophy, however, defines eternity as what is timeless or exists outside time, whereas ...
''
Gallery
Reference
External links
*
Nancy Chan Wan-Seung at hkmdb.com
1919 births
Actresses from Guangdong
Actresses from Guangzhou
2016 deaths
20th-century Chinese actresses
Chinese film actresses
20th-century Chinese women singers
Chinese expatriates in British Hong Kong
Pathé Records (China) artists
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