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Shangguan Yunzhu
Shangguan Yunzhu (; 2 March 1920 – 23 November 1968) was a Chinese actress active from the 1940s to the 1960s. She was considered one of the most talented and versatile actresses in China, and was named one of the 100 best actors of the 100 years of Chinese cinema in 2005. Born Wei Junluo, she fled to Shanghai when her hometown Jiangyin was attacked by the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War. In Shanghai she became a drama and film actress, and her career took off after the end of the war. She starred in several prominent leftist films such as '' Spring River Flows East'', ''Crows and Sparrows'', and '' Women Side by Side''. After the Communist victory in mainland China in 1949, her career was set back when her husband was embroiled in the anti-capitalist Five-anti Campaign, but she later portrayed a wide variety of characters in many films. Shangguan was married three times and had three children, but all her marriages ended in divorce. She was said to have had an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shangguan (surname)
Shangguan () is a Chinese compound surname. During the Warring States period, , a son of King Huai of Chu, settled in . Zilan's descendants took the place name as their surname. Following Qin's wars of unification, the Shangguan family and others loyal to the state of Chu were forced to relocate.《 通志·氏族略》：上官氏。楚王子蘭，為上官邑大夫，因以為氏。秦滅楚，徙隴西之上邽。漢有右將軍安陽侯上官桀，生安桑樂侯，女為昭帝皇后，拜車騎將軍，後以反伏誅。裔孫勝。 The surname is prominent in Gansu, around Tianshui. A second wave of migration after the Tang dynasty ended saw many members of the Shangguan family settle in Fujian. Shangguan is listed 411th in the ''Hundred Family Surnames.'' Notable people with the surname include: *Grand Empress Dowager Shangguan (88–37 BC; personal name unknown), granddaughter of Shangguan Jie, wife of Emperor Zhao of Han *Shangguan Jie (died 80 BC), Chinese official, gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cao Yu
Cao Yu (, September 24, 1910 – December 13, 1996) was a Chinese playwright, often regarded as one of China's most important playwrights of the 20th century. His best-known works are ''Thunderstorm'' (1933), ''Sunrise'' (1936) and ''Peking Man'' (1940). It is largely through the efforts of Cao Yu that the modern Chinese "spoken theatre" took root in 20th century Chinese literature. Cao Yu was the president of China's Premier Modern Drama Theatre, the chairman of the China Theatre Association (1968–1998) and established the Beijing People's Art Theatre in 1952. Cao Yu is regarded as the paramount playwright of modern Chinese drama, "enthroned as China's Shakespeare" according to '' The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama''. Name Cao Yu, the name most associated with this playwright, was a pen name; his birth name was Wan Jiabao (). The pseudonym was originated from his surname . Cao dismantled the character into its graphical components and . Since the radical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bai Chen
Bai Chen (; 22 May 1922 – 5 November 2002), born Tian Zuheng (Chinese: 田祖恒), was a Chinese film director, screenwriter, and actor. Life and career Born in Suzhou, the son of a Hanlin Academy member, Bai became orphan of both parents when he was 11. He started his career on stage while being in high school, and during the World War II he served as an actor for the troupes. After working as an actor in Shanghai, in 1946, he moved to Hong Kong, where he served as assistant director of Zhu Shilin and started appearing in small roles in films. Bai made his directorial debut in 1949, specializing in opera films. Because of his political positions, he was expelled from Hong Kong in 1952, and returned to Shanghai, where was put under contract at Shanghai Film Studio. In 1955, he had a major hit with the war-drama ''Storm on the Southern Island''. In 1956, he formed the "Society of Five Flowers" together with colleagues Xie Jin, Xu Changlin and Yang Hua, with the aim of coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Civil War
The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led Nationalist government, government of the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and the forces of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Armed conflict continued intermittently from 1 August 1927 until Communist victory resulted in their total control over mainland China on 7 December 1949. The war is generally divided into two phases with an interlude: from August 1927 to 1937, the First United Front alliance of the KMT and CCP collapsed during the Northern Expedition, and the Nationalists controlled most of China. From 1937 to 1945, hostilities were mostly put on hold as the Second United Front fought the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japanese invasion of China with eventual help from the Allies of World War II. However, armed clashes between the groups remained common. Exacerbating the divisions within China further was the formation of the Wang Jingwei regime, a Japan-sponsored puppet government led by Wang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen Liting
Chen Liting (; 20 October 1910 – 27 August 2013) was a Chinese playwright, drama and film director, screenwriter, and film theorist. He was one of the most prominent film directors and screenwriters in pre-Communist China, together with Shi Dongshan, Cai Chusheng, and Zheng Junli. His most famous film was ''Women Side by Side'' (1949). Chen was abandoned as an infant, and then lost both foster parents during early childhood. Before becoming a film director, Chen worked mainly in drama. His patriotic play ''Put Down Your Whip'' was highly influential and performed countless times during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japanese invasion of China. During the war he also made a famous staging of the play ''Qu Yuan'', and wrote one of the first Chinese books on film theory. After the early 1950s, Chen's attempts at filmmaking were repeatedly thwarted by the PRC government for political reasons. He worked as general manager of Tianma Film Studio before being imprisoned during the Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shen Fu (director)
Shen Fu (; 23 March 1905 – 27 April 1994) was a Chinese film director, screenwriter and actor, born in Tianjin. During 1930s he was associated with Lianhua Film Company in Shanghai. His ''Myriad of Lights'' (1948) was selected as one of the 100 best 20th-century Chinese films by ''Asia Weekly''.http://www.chinesecinemas.org/chinacentury.html. See December 19, 1999 issue of ''Asia Weekly''. It also ranks #91 in Hong Kong Film Awards#Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures, Hong Kong Film Academy's poll of the 100 best Chinese language, Chinese-language films. Selected filmography * ''Lianhua Symphony'' (1937) (director of a segment, screenplay, actor) * ''Myriad of Lights'' (''The Lights of Ten Thousand Homes'') (1949) (director, screenplay) * ''Crows and Sparrows'' (1949) (screenplay) * ''Li Shizhen (1956 film), Li Shizhen'' (1956) (director) References External links *Shen Fu at the Chinese Movie Database 1905 births 1994 deaths Film directors from Tianjin Screenwriters fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myriad Of Lights
''Myriad of Lights'', also translated as ''Lights of Ten Thousand Homes'', is a 1948 Cinema of China, Chinese film directed by Shen Fu (director), Shen Fu and starring Shangguan Yunzhu, Wu Yin (actress), Wu Yin and Lan Ma. The film is selected as one of the 100 best 20th-century Chinese films by ''Asia Weekly''.http://www.chinesecinemas.org/chinacentury.html. See December 19, 1999 issue of ''Asia Weekly''. It also ranks #91 in Hong Kong Film Awards#Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures, Hong Kong Film Academy's poll of the 100 best Chinese-language films. Plot The film begins with a small family of four (including a servant and a young daughter) in post-war Shanghai. The father, Hu Zhiqing, is a modest office worker. He finds out one day in a letter that his mother and his brother's family are coming down from the provinces to join him because living conditions are tough in the countryside. His wife cautions him that this means household expenses will increase greatly. Spiraling i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zheng Junli
Zheng Junli (December 6, 1911 – April 23, 1969) was a Chinese actor and director born in Shanghai and who rose to prominence in the golden age of Chinese Cinema. His films ''The Spring River Flows East'' and ''Crows and Sparrows'' are widely considered classics of Chinese cinema. He was severely persecuted during the Cultural Revolution and died in prison. Republic of China Zheng was born into a poor family of Cantonese fruit-sellers in Shanghai. At early ages, he showed great interest in reading and art performing. In 1928, he entered the Nanguo she drama school to study under Tian Han and Ouyang Yuqian, who were progressive dramatists. During the 1930s, Zheng was an actor under contract with Lianhua Film Company. While with Lianhua, he played a number of roles, notably as the love-interest Yu Haichou in the film ''New Women'' opposite Ruan Lingyu. By the mid-1930s, he was one of the biggest stars in Shanghai film. Zheng's 1941 film ''Long Live the Nations'' (''Minzu wansui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cai Chusheng
Cai Chusheng (January 12, 1906 – July 15, 1968) was a Chinese film director of the pre-Communist era, and was the first Chinese director to win an international film award at the Moscow International Film Festival. Best known for his progressive output in the 1930s, Cai Chusheng was later severely persecuted and died during the Cultural Revolution. His ashes are kept at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing. Biography Early career Cai was born in Shanghai to Cantonese parents, but raised in Chaoyang, Guangdong. He only had four years of formal education, and was home-schooled after he had spoken up for his class about the misbehavior of a teacher. While home-schooled, he studied Confucianism and practiced calligraphy and painting.Pickowicz, p. 371 Cai Chusheng initially worked in low-level positions in several small studios during the 1920s, before eventually joining Mingxing Film Company as a director's assistant to Zheng Zhengqiu, another Chaoyang-native.Xiao ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sang Hu
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Long Live The Missus!
''Long Live the Missus!'' ( zh, t=太太萬歲, s=太太万岁, first=t; pinyin: Tàitai Wànsuì) is a 1947 Chinese romantic comedy film known as one of the best comedies of the civil war era. The film was directed by Sang Hu ( 桑弧) with a screenplay written by the famous Chinese literary figure Eileen Chang; the pair also collaborated on the 1947 film '' Unending Love'' (''Bu Liao Qing'', 1947). The film was produced in Shanghai by the Wenhua Film Company. ''Long Live the Missus!'' offers a satirical depiction of the lives of women, male-female relationships, and the institution of marriage in 1940s Shanghai. The film is an example of how the writer Eileen Chang interpreted the Western ''comedy of manners'' for Chinese audiences. AEnglish-subtitled version of the film based on a translation of thfilmscriptbChristopher Rea is available on YouTube. Cast *Jiang Tianliu蒋天流 as Chen Sizhen, protagonist, capable housewife, and dutiful daughter-in-law; *Zhang Fa张伐 as Tang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
