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20-year-old Ruan Lingyu, a superstar during the silent film era, in Love and Duty (1931) [24]. The first truly important Chinese films were produced beginning in the 1930s with the advent of the "progressive" or "left-wing" movement, like Cheng Bugao's Spring Silkworms (1933), [25] Wu Yonggang's The Goddess (1934), [26] and Sun Yu's The Great Road, also known as The Big Road (1934). [27]
An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896–1937 is a 2005 book by Zhang Zhen published by the University of Chicago Press.Based on her doctoral dissertation, it employs Miriam Hansen's concept of "vernacular modernism" to explore the first four decades of the cinema of China, with particular focus on Shanghai.
In 2002, Hero became the second highest-grossing domestic film, with CN¥250 million. China's first domestic film to breach ¥360 million was released in 2009, The Founding of a Republic. [28] In 2015, Monster Hunt became the first domestic film in 17 years to become the overall highest-grossing film in China, earning ¥2.44 billion. [28]
The second part of the film, which covers Wang's decision to regain her stardom and her independence, has survived at the China Film Archive. [11] The full film was eighteen reels in length; [2] the surviving fragment is 52 minutes. [8] Scholarship on early Chinese cinema has generally ignored An Amorous History of the Silver Screen. [12]
Productions that have survived include Labourer's Love, the oldest surviving Chinese film, [13] as well as a further twenty-three films. Some films, such as An Amorous History of the Silver Screen (1931), are known only to have survived in the China Film Archive, [14] while others, such as The Classic for Girls (1934), have seen home release. [15]
Beijing . Adult Admission: Free With 20 permanent exhibition halls and 100 years of Chinese cinema history behind its walls, the China National Film Museum is the “world’s largest professional ...
The cinema of Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港電影) is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese-language cinema, alongside the cinema of China and the cinema of Taiwan. As a former Crown colony , Hong Kong had a greater degree of political and economic freedom than mainland China and Taiwan , and developed into a filmmaking hub for ...
This is an index for the list of films produced in mainland China ordered by decade on separate pages. For an alphabetical listing of Chinese films see Category:Chinese films 1905–1989