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The Shanghai massacre of 12 April 1927, the April 12 Purge or the April 12 Incident as it is commonly known in China, was the violent suppression of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organizations and leftist elements in Shanghai by forces supporting General Chiang Kai-shek and conservative factions in the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party or KMT).
During her tenure, Choy directed documentary films on the 1971 Attica prison uprising, the life of women in United States prisons, and the history of social activism in New York City's chinatown, as well as documentaries on the division of the Korean peninsula and Namibia's struggle for independence from South Africa, among others. [9]
Xu joined the Shanghai-based film company Mingxing in 1931. With them, he directed several films, including Three Arrows of Love (1931), Who is the Hero? (1931), Blood Debt (1932), The Uprising (1933), The Classic for Girls (1934), and Passionate and Loyal Soul (1935). [1]
Jasmine Women is a 2004 Chinese film directed and co-written by Hou Yong in his directorial debut. The film is an adaptation of Su Tong 's novel Women's Life (妇女生活) and depicts the emotionally troubled lives of 4 generations of Shanghainese women from the 1930s to the 1980s.
Iranian filmmaker Marjan Khosravi, winner of multiple awards for her shorts, is bowing her first feature-length film, “Requiem for a Tribe,” at the Shanghai International Film Festival.
An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896–1937 is a 2005 book by Zhang Zhen published by the University of Chicago Press. Based on her doctoral dissertation , it employs Miriam Hansen 's concept of "vernacular modernism" to explore the first four decades of the cinema of China , with particular focus on Shanghai .
Qiu Jin was known as an eloquent orator [17] who spoke out for women's rights, such as the freedom to marry, freedom of education, and abolishment of the practice of foot binding. In 1906 she founded China Women's News (Zhongguo nü bao), a radical women's journal with another female poet, Xu Zihua in Shanghai. [18]
Uprising is titled “전, 란” in Korean, which translates to “War, Chaos.” “This story can be divided into war, and what happens after that war,” explains Korean film legend Park Chan ...