Mingxing Film Company

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The Mingxing film company ( Chinese  明星 影片 公司 , Pinyin Míngxīng Yǐngpiàn Gōngsī ) was one of the largest film production companies in China in the 1920s and in Shanghai and Hong Kong in the 1930s . The company existed from 1924 to 1937 and was permanently closed after the Second Sino-Japanese War .

history

Mingxing was founded in 1922 by Zhang Shichuan , Zheng Zhengqiu and others. The film company developed alongside Dazhonghua Baihe and the Tianyi Film Company into one of the three leading film companies of the 1920s. During this time, all three studios were known for producing "light" entertainment, albeit showing signs of social criticism, inspired by the May Fourth Movement .

The film company tried in the first few years with comical short films such as the 1922 Laborer's Love . In 1923 Orphan Rescues produced Grandfather , which became a commercial success and ensured Mingxing's success.

By the early 1930s, Mingxing had risen to become the leading film company in China and dominated the market with its recently launched rival, Lianhua Film Company (in partnership with Dazhonghua Baihe). Tianyi continued to produce films during the 1930s, but the number could not compete with the two leading companies. In the mid-1930s, Mingxing and Lianhua became the main producers of left-wing political films in Shanghai. With the death of co-founder Zheng Zhengqiu in 1934 and the start of the war in 1937, Mingxing was forced to close the doors forever.

Some parts of Mingxing were revived by Zhang Shichuan in 1938 as the Guahao Film Company .

Major films

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Zhang, Yingjin: A Centennial Review of Chinese Cinema . October 10, 2003. Archived from the original on September 7, 2008. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 7, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / chinesecinema.ucsd.edu
  2. ↑ Hong Kong Shanghai: Cinema Cities. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery Of Modern Art, 2007, accessed August 27, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Fu, p. 9

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  • Fu, Poshek. Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003.
  • Zhang, Yingjin. "A Centennial Review of Chinese Cinema" available at http://chinesecinema.ucsd.edu/essay_ccwlc.html

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