Shanghai film industry

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The Shanghai film industry is the early 20th-century Chinese cinema hub centered in Shanghai, known for its influential studios, stars, and leftist-leaning films that shaped modern Chinese film history.

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Shanghai film industry canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural industry
film industry
affectedBy Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
surface form: Japanese invasion of China

Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
surface form: Second Sino-Japanese War

political censorship in Republican China
centeredAround film distributors
film stars
film studios
country China
distributionRegion Chinese-speaking world
Southeast Asia
economicBase Shanghai urban middle class audience
historicalPrecursorOf Hong Kong cinema
surface form: Hong Kong Mandarin film industry

People's Republic of China film industry
influenced Chinese leftist cinema
Hong Kong cinema
modern Chinese film history
knownFor being the early hub of Chinese cinema
leftist-leaning films
modern women images in film
sound film innovation in China
star system in Chinese cinema
urban melodramas
languageOfFilms Mandarin
Shanghainese
locatedIn Shanghai
locatedInTimePeriod early 20th century
majorStudio Lianhua Film Company
Mingxing Film Company
Tianyi Film Company
Xinhua Film Company
Yihua Film Company
notableDirector Cai Chusheng
Fei Mu
Sun Yu NERFINISHED
Yuan Muzhi NERFINISHED
notableStar Hu Die
Jin Yan NERFINISHED
Ruan Lingyu
Zhou Xuan
politicalTendency leftist
nationalist themes
producedGenre martial arts film
melodrama
musical film
social realist film
producedNotableFilm Song at Midnight
Spring River Flows East
Street Angel
The Goddess
significantPeriod 1920s
1930s
1940s
Republican era China

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Lan Ping activeIn Shanghai film industry
Li Yunhe associatedWith Shanghai film industry