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  2. Cinema of China - Wikipedia

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    20-year-old Ruan Lingyu, a superstar during the silent film era, in Love and Duty (1931) [24]. The first truly important Chinese films were produced beginning in the 1930s with the advent of the "progressive" or "left-wing" movement, like Cheng Bugao's Spring Silkworms (1933), [25] Wu Yonggang's The Goddess (1934), [26] and Sun Yu's The Great Road, also known as The Big Road (1934). [27]

  3. History of China - Wikipedia

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    Major combat in the Chinese Civil War ended in 1949 with the KMT pulling out of the mainland, with the government relocating to Taipei and maintaining control only over a few islands. The CCP was left in control of mainland China. On 1 October 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China. [94] "Communist China" and "Red China ...

  4. The Founding of an Army - Wikipedia

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    The Founding of an Army is a 2017 Chinese historical drama produced by the China Film Group Corporation to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army. Produced by Han Sanping and directed by Andrew Lau , it is the third installment of the Founding of New China trilogy, along with The Founding of a Republic ...

  5. Chinese Cinema: Culture and Politics since 1949 - Wikipedia

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    Chinese Cinema: Culture and Politics since 1949 is a 1988 non-fiction book by Paul Clark, published by Cambridge University Press. [1] It discusses films produced by the Chinese Communist Party and groups with its ideology beginning in 1934, and through the time it established the People's Republic of China. The book's coverage ends in the year ...

  6. List of documentary films about China - Wikipedia

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    Chinese Roots (1994) China: A Century of Revolution – Part Two: The Mao Years 1949-1976 (1994) Timewatch Chairman Mao: The Last Emperor (1993) China: A Century of Revolution – Part One: China in Revolution 1911-1949 (1989) China Diary (1989) River Elegy (Chinese: 河殇) China Rises; Mao Tse Tung: China's Peasant Emperor

  7. Media history of China - Wikipedia

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    In the early 1983, there were approximately 162,000 film projection units in China. [2]: 1 Most of these were used by mobile movie teams which showed films outdoors in rural and urban areas. [5]: 102 In 1980, the Chinese computing technology was estimated to be about 15 years behind United States technology. [25]

  8. Category:History of China on film - Wikipedia

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    Depictions of the history of China on film. Subcategories. ... Films set in the Republic of China (1912–1949) (2 C, 26 P) S. Shenmo films (1 C) Sino-Indian War ...

  9. History of the People's Republic of China - Wikipedia

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    The history of the People's Republic of China details the history of mainland China since 1 October 1949, when CCP chairman Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China (PRC) from atop Tiananmen, after a near complete victory (1949) by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the Chinese Civil War.