Ai Xia

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Ai Xia, around 1933

Ai Xia ( Chinese  艾 霞 , Pinyin Ài Xiá ; actually Yan Yinan ; born November 29, 1912 in Tianjin , Chinese Empire ; † February 15, 1934 in Shanghai , Republic of China ) was a Chinese actress.

Life

She worked for the Mingxing film company in Shanghai . In Zhang Shichuan's sound film Zhifen shichang ( The Tenderness Market ; 1933) she starred alongside Hu Die , and in the same year with Zhao Dan in Shi dai de er nü . She had one of her last appearances in Cheng Bugao's socially critical film Chun can ( Spring Silkworms , 1933). She starred in about seven films.

Ai Xia committed suicide by poisoning herself with raw opium at the age of 21 . Cai Chusheng's film Xin nü xing (1934) with Ruan Lingyu is based on her case .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/990809 (English)
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Yan is the family name here, Yinan is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Ai, Xia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yan, Yinan (real name); 艾 霞 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Tianjin , Chinese Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1934
Place of death Shanghai , Republic of China