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Co-founded by the dramatists and media entrepreneurs Ren Jinping, Zhang Shichuan, Zheng Zhegu, Zheng Zhengqiu, and Zhou Jianyun, [2] Mingxing had its first theatrical releases – a double feature of the short comedies The King of Comedy Visits Shanghai and Labourer's Love – at the Olympic Theatre on 7 October 1922. [3]
Eight treasure duck (Chinese: 八寶鴨; pinyin: bābǎoyā; Jyutping: baat3 bou2 aap3'; Shanghainese: paq 7-pau 5-aq 7, lit. 'eight treasure duck'), also known as eight treasures duck, is a duck dish in Shanghai and Cantonese cuisine. Its name derives from the fact that it is stuffed with eight other ingredients, including rice, mushrooms and ...
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]
The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple, in 16 parts, is among the longest films ever produced and the longest major release, [specify] running 27 hours in total. The Mingxing Film Company production was released in 19 feature-length parts between 1928 and 1931. No copies have survived.
The popularity of The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple stimulated the emergence of a subgenre of wuxia film, emulated by other Shanghai studios. [28] However, critics decried the genre as pornographic and feudal in mindset, [102] and it was banned as promoting superstition by the KMT government in 1931. [103]
Zhang directed about 150 films in his career, including Laborer's Love (1922), the earliest complete Chinese film that has survived; Orphan Rescues Grandfather (1923), one of the first Chinese box-office hits; The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple (1928), the first martial arts film; and Sing-Song Girl Red Peony (1931), China's first sound film.
Born in Shanghai in 1889, Zheng Zhengqiu was a young intellectual involved in China's theater scene when he and his friend and colleague, Zhang Shichuan, made the first Chinese feature film, a short film titled, The Difficult Couple in 1913. [1]
Ashes of the Lotus: 美人關: Bu Wancang: Xiao Ying Yang Naimei: War: The Beloved: 意中人: Wan Laitian: Li Minghui Wan Laitian Sun Min: Romance: Burning of the Red Lotus Temple: 火燒紅蓮寺: Zheng Zhengqiu (pt.1) Zhang Shichuan (pts.2-19) Zheng Xiaoqiu Xia Peizhen Hu Die: Action: 19 parts, adapted from a martial arts novel by Pingjiang ...