Cai Chusheng
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Cai Chusheng 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, with his film Song o
Cai in the 1950s
Ruan Lingyu
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Ruan Ling-yu, also known by her English name Lily Yuen, was a Chinese actress in silent films. One of the most prominent Chinese film stars of the 1930s, her exceptional acting ability and suicide at
Cai Chusheng
…including the class-struggle dramas Dawn Over the Metropolis (1933), Song of the Fishermen (1934), and the proto-feminist New Women (1934), which starred Ruan Lingyu. Song of the Fishermen, for example, was a major box office success in Shanghai where it played for 87 days, and it would also become the first Chinese…
20-year-old Ruan in Love and Duty
Ruan in 1930s
Ruan on the cover of The Young Companion pictorial, December 1934
Ruan's funeral procession was reportedly attended by more than 100,000 people.