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Hou Yao
Hou Yao (1903–1942) was a pioneering Chinese film director, screenwriter, and Film theory, film theorist. He wrote and directed many films including ''The Discarded Wife'' (1924), ''Romance of the Western Chamber (1927 film), Romance of the Western Chamber'' (1927), the first Chinese film shown in Western countries, and ''Mulan Joins the Army (1928 film), Mulan Joins the Army'' (1928). He wrote ''Techniques of Writing Shadowplay Scripts'', the first theory book on Chinese filmmaking. He founded the Culture Film Company, which was merged into a predecessor of the Shaw Brothers Studio. He has been called the Chinese Henrik Ibsen for his advocacy for gender equality, which he shared with his wife Pu Shunqing. After the Empire of Japan Second Sino-Japanese War, invaded China in 1937, Hou Yao wrote and directed a series of patriotic films against Japanese aggression. In 1942, he was murdered by the Japanese during the Sook Ching massacre in Singapore. Biography Hou Yao was born in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panyu District
Panyu, Postal Map Romanization, formerly romanized as Punyü, is one of 11 District (China), urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong, Guangdong Province, China. Since January 1975, Panyu County has been under Guangzhou's administration. In 1992, Panyu County was renamed to Panyu county-level city, still under Guangzhou's administration. It was subsequently renamed to Panyu District on 10 July 2000. The present district covers an area of about . Geography Panyu lies at the heart of the Pearl River Delta. It extends from latitudes 22.26' to 23.05', and from longitudes 113.14' to 113.42'. Facing the Lion Sea in the east and the estuary of the Pearl River (China), Pearl River in the south, its eastern border is separated from Dongguan by a strip of water, and the western border of Panyu is adjacent to the cities of Nanhai District, Nanhai, Shunde District, Shunde and Zhongshan, while it abuts the downtown of Guangzhou in the north. The site ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south along with the Riau Islands in Indonesia, the South China Sea to the east, and the Straits of Johor along with the State of Johor in Malaysia to the north. In its early history, Singapore was a maritime emporium known as '' Temasek''; subsequently, it was part of a major constituent part of several successive thalassocratic empires. Its contemporary era began in 1819, when Stamford Raffles established Singapore as an entrepôt trading post of the British Empire. In 1867, Singapore came under the direct control of Britain as part of the Straits Settlements. During World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tianjin
Tianjin is a direct-administered municipality in North China, northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the National Central City, nine national central cities, with a total population of 13,866,009 inhabitants at the time of the 2020 Chinese census. Its metropolitan area, which is made up of 12 central districts (other than Baodi District, Baodi, Jizhou District, Tianjin, Jizhou, Jinghai District, Jinghai and Ninghe District, Ninghe), was home to 11,165,706 inhabitants and is also the world's 29th-largest agglomeration (between Chengdu and Rio de Janeiro) and 11th-List of cities proper by population, most populous city proper. Tianjin is governed as one of the four municipalities (alongside Beijing, Shanghai, and Chongqing) under the direct-administered municipalities of China, direct administration of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, State Council of Government of China, China. The city borders Hebei Province and Beijing Municipality, bounded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinematography
Cinematography () is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography. Cinematographers use a lens (optics), lens to focus reflected light from objects into a real image that is transferred to some image sensor or Photographic film, light-sensitive material inside the movie camera. These Exposure (photography), exposures are created sequentially and preserved for later processing and viewing as a motion picture. Capturing images with an electronic image sensor produces an Charge-coupled device, electrical charge for each pixel in the image, which is Video processing, electronically processed and stored in a video file for subsequent processing or display. Images captured with photographic emulsion result in a series of invisible latent images on the film stock, which are chemically "Photographic developer, developed" into a Positive (photography), visible image. The images on the film stock are Movie projector, projected for viewing in the sam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Poet From The Sea
''A Poet from the Sea'' is a 1927 Chinese silent film written and directed by Hou Yao, starring himself as a quixotic poet who tried to escape from the constraints of modernity. Filmed in Stanley, Hong Kong, it contains one of the earliest footages of Hong Kong. Like most Chinese silent films, it features both Chinese and English intertitles. A fragment of the film was recovered in Europe and is currently stored in Italy's Cineteca di Bologna. Cast *Hou Yao Hou Yao (1903–1942) was a pioneering Chinese film director, screenwriter, and Film theory, film theorist. He wrote and directed many films including ''The Discarded Wife'' (1924), ''Romance of the Western Chamber (1927 film), Romance of the Wes ... as Meng Ih Bing, a poet * Lee Dan Dan as Liu Tsan Ying, a girl woodcutter *S.D. Dju as Liu Yung, Liu Tsan Ying's younger brother *Xing Banmei as Ms. Yang, Liu Tsan Ying's mother * Lim Cho Cho as Yin Meizhen, Meng Ih Bing's cousin *Mi Tsong as Ting Bung, Meng's neighbor and a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Minwei
Lai Man-wai (; September 25, 1893 – October 26, 1953), also romanised as Lay Min-wei or M.W. Ray, considered the "Father of Hong Kong Cinema", was the director of the first Hong Kong film '' Zhuangzi Tests His Wife'' in 1913. In the film, Lai played the role of the wife, partly due to the reluctance of women to participate in show business at the time. Born in Yokohama, Japan, of Xinhui, Guangdong origin and raised in Hong Kong, he joined Sun Yat-sen's Kuomintang party in 1911 and helped make anti-warlord movies. Biography Lai was born in 1893 in Yokohama, Japan to Chinese parents. He grew up in Hong Kong. Liu's earliest exposure to cinema was watching a newsreel from the Russo-Japanese War. In 1913, Lai founded a drama troupe in Hong Kong. He collaborated with Ukrainian-American filmmaker Benjamin Brodsky in the production of two short fiction films. Lai was a member of Sun Yat-sen's Revolutionary Alliance. In 1921, Lai founded a film exhibition company. In 1922, he fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Sun Motion Picture Company
Minxin Film Company (), also known as China Sun Motion Picture Company Ltd. (1923–1930), was one of the earliest movie studios in the history of Chinese cinema and Hong Kong cinema. History Minxin was founded in 1922 by Lai Manwai. Because Lai believed that cinema in China should serve the country's revolution and modernization, Minxin's early productions focused on documentaries dealing with educational, current affairs, and cultural topics. In 1925, Lai relocated Minxin from Hong Kong to Shanghai. Sun Yat-sen and the Kuomintang became a major focus of Minxin's films. Lai recorded Sun's public announcement of the Northern Expedition, and documented Chiang Kai-shek's consolidation of power after Sun's death, including filming the progress of the Northern Expedition. Initially, Minxin released film from this period as news reels. Later, Lai compiled footage into an eighty-minute film which the KMT branch in Shanghai approved as the only long format film for party propagan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Rights
Women's rights are the rights and Entitlement (fair division), entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behavior, whereas in others, they are ignored and suppressed. They differ from broader notions of human rights through claims of an inherent historical and traditional bias against the exercise of rights by women and girls, in favor of men and boys.Hosken, Fran P., 'Towards a Definition of Women's Rights' in ''Human Rights Quarterly'', Vol. 3, No. 2. (May 1981), pp. 1–10. Issues commonly associated with notions of women's rights include the right to bodily integrity and autonomy, to be free from sexual violence, to Women's suffrage, vote, to hold public office, to enter into legal contracts, to have equal rights in family law, Right to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mei Xuechou
Mei may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Mei'' (film), a 2019 Tamil thriller * ''Mei'' (album), by Echolyn, 2002 People * Mei (surname), including a list of people with the surname * Mei (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Roger Meï (1935–2025), French politician Places * Mei County, Shaanxi, China * Mei County, Guangdong, China * Mei Pass, Guangdong, a mountain pass * Mei River, Guangdong * Eiras e Mei, a civil parish of Arcos de Valdevez, Portugal Other uses * ''Mei'' (dinosaur), a genus of bird-like Chinese dinosaur * Methyl iodide, MeI, a chemical compound * Midob language of Sudan, ISO 639-3 language code mei * ''Prunus mume'', or ''mei'', the Chinese plum * Meilin "Mei" Lee, a main protagonist from a 2022 American animated film ''Turning Red'' * Mei-chan, a pet name of Tadakuni's younger sister in '' Daily Lives of High School Boys'' * Mei or Méi, month May in several Indonesian local languages, includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Zeyuan
Li Zeyuan (born April 23, 1986) is a Chinese baseball third baseman who plays with the Beijing Tigers in the China Baseball League. He was the first Chinese player to play in the Shikoku-Kyūshū Island League in Japan when he appeared for the Kagawa Olive Guyners in 2009. Li represented China at the 2012 Asia Series, 2015 Asian Baseball Championship, and 2017 World Baseball Classic The 2017 World Baseball Classic (WBC) was an international professional baseball competition, composed of 16 competing nations, held from March 6 to 22, 2017. It was the fourth iteration of the World Baseball Classic. The first-round hosts wer .... References 1986 births Living people 2017 World Baseball Classic players Chinese baseball players Baseball third basemen Beijing Tigers players Chinese expatriate baseball players in Japan {{PRChina-baseball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shanghai
Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowing through it. The population of the city proper is the List of largest cities, second largest in the world after Chongqing, with around 24.87 million inhabitants in 2023, while the urban area is the List of cities in China by population, most populous in China, with 29.87 million residents. As of 2022, the Greater Shanghai metropolitan area was estimated to produce a gross metropolitan product (GDP (nominal), nominal) of nearly 13 trillion Renminbi, RMB ($1.9 trillion). Shanghai is one of the world's major centers for finance, #Economy, business and economics, research, science and technology, manufacturing, transportation, List of tourist attractions in Shanghai, tourism, and Culture of Shanghai, culture. The Port of Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Wall Film Company
Great Wall Film Company () was one of the first Chinese film production companies based in Shanghai, China, in the 1920s. History The company was founded by Mei Xuechou (梅雪俦) and Liu Zhaoming (刘兆明) in the 1920s. The company's first known film was ''The Discarded Wife'' (1924), written by Hou Yao and co-directed by Hou and Li Zeyuan. The cartoon '' Uproar in the Studio'' was the first known cartoon short released for non-commercial in China in 1926 when the Wan brothers was working for the company. The segment helped them become recognized as animation pioneers in China. The last known production by the company was in 1930. Productions # The Discarded Wife (弃妇) (1924) # The Star-Plucking Girl (摘星之女) (1925) # The Love's Dream (春闺梦里人)1903) # Cupid's Puppets (爱神的玩偶) (1925) # Unlucky Double (苦乐鸳鸯) (1926) # The Country Maid (乡姑娘) (1920) # The Hypocrite (伪君子) (1926) # Close a Rift (情天终补) (1926) # Uproar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
