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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.
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]
First Chinese short feature film 1917: Victims of Opium: 黑籍冤魂: Zhang Shichuan, Guan Haifeng: Drama/Social Criticism: Based on a novel by Wu Jianren: 1921: Yan Ruisheng: 閻瑞生: Ren Pengnian: Docudrama: First full-length Chinese film, a dramatized recreation of a 1920 Shanghai murder case 1922: Laborer's Love: 勞工之愛情: Zhang ...
中国影片大典 Encyclopaedia of Chinese Films. 1905-1930, 故事片·戏曲片. (1996). Zhong guo ying pian da dian: 1905-1930. Beijing: 中国电影出版社 China Movie Publishing House. ISBN 7-106-01155-X; 中国影片大典 Encyclopaedia of Chinese Films. 1931-1949.9, 故事片·戏曲片. (2005). Zhong guo ying pian da dian: 1931-1949.9.
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]
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 history of Chinese-language cinema has three separate threads of development: cinema of China, cinema of Hong Kong and cinema of Taiwan. See also the categories for the cinema of Hong Kong and Taiwan