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
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.
New Women
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New Women is a 1935 Chinese silent drama film produced by the United Photoplay Service. It is sometimes translated as New Woman. The film starred Ruan Lingyu and was directed by Cai Chusheng. This fil
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…pinnacle of Chinese silent cinema; Ruan sympathetically portrayed a prostitute bringing up a child. Later that year, Ruan made her penultimate film, New Women (directed by Cai Chusheng), in which she played an educated woman forced to death by an unfeeling society. The film was based on the life of actress…
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Ruan Lingyu
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