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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]
One film, simply titled Qiu Jin, was released in 1983 and directed by Xie Jin. [23] [24] Another film, released in 2011, Jing Xiong Nüxia Qiu Jin (競雄女俠秋瑾), or The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake, was directed by Herman Yau. She is briefly shown in the beginning of 1911, being led to the execution ground to be beheaded.
Subsequent films directed by Xu included Never to Part (1951) and Women in the Army (1952). [3] The former film was a piece of propaganda, depicting tensions between the Kuomintang government and the Taiwanese indigenous peoples as stemming from CCP manipulations, [ 10 ] while the latter – co-directed with Wang Yu – was submitted to the ...
The Shanghai Document (Russian: Шанхайский документ) is an early documentary film. This silent film was directed by Yakov Bliokh [ ru ] and was released in the USSR in 1928. The film portrays Shanghai , China in the early 1920s.
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 ...
During a general strike on March 22, 1927, Chen Duxiu and Zhou Enlai [3] would lead a group of 5,000 armed workers in the city's third armed uprising. [1] After seizing the city by 6pm, they, along with Soviets organized by strikers, established the Shanghai Provisional Municipal Government along the lines of the Paris Commune. [4]
The Red Detachment of Women (simplified Chinese: 红色娘子军; traditional Chinese: 紅色孃子軍; pinyin: Hóngsè Niángzi Jūn) is a 1961 Chinese film by Xie Jin based on a script by Liang Xin. It is set in the 1930s and involves two peasant women who go into warfare. [1]