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Yuan Muzhi (Chinese: 袁牧之; March 3, 1909 – January 30, 1978) was an actor and director from the Republic of China and later of the People's Republic of China. Career [ edit ] As an actor, Yuan became extremely popular and took on the nickname "man with a thousand faces."
: 102 Yuan Muzhi was important in developing the Communist government's theories and practices of rural film exhibition. [8] : 46 Yuan and Chen Bo'er transformed the post-Second Sino-Japanese War remnants of the Manchurian Motion Picture Association into the Northeast Film Studio and when Yuan became Film Bureau chief in 1949, he applied its ...
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A young poet Xin Baihe flees Shanghai with his friend, Liang. Liang soon joins the resistance against the Japanese invaders, but Xin chooses to pursue a relationship with a glamorous and westernized widow in Qingdao. After hearing that Liang has been killed, however, Xin has a change of heart and rushes to join the war effort.
The film was a strong communist production, produced by the Diantong Film Company and based on a story by Tian Han, a Communist Party member since 1932. Tian was arrested by the Nationalists shortly after it was released. In addition, it starred Yuan Muzhi, who would join the Communists in 1940 and had music by the Communist composer Nie Er. The st...
The theme song of the movie, "The March of the Volunteers", was sung by Gu Menghe and Yuan Muzhi. The song was released as an album by the Pathé Records label (which later became part of EMI in 1935). "The March of the Volunteers" was selected as the provisional national anthem of the People's Republic of China in 1949. This decision was formally w...
Pickowicz, Paul G. (Jan 1991), "The Theme of Spiritual Pollution in Chinese Films of the 1930s", Modern China, 17 (1): 38–75, doi:10.1177/009770049101700102, S2CID 144631565
Children of Troubled Times at the Internet Movie Database [erroneously translated as Scenes of City Life]Children of Troubled Times at the Internet ArchiveA short clip with the early version of "March of the Volunteers" on YouTubeCommunist Party as he himself had come from a Marxist philosophical background. In ... and Yuan Muzhi’s Street Angel (Malu tianshi, 1937), was an explicitly political attempt to
Scenes of City Life (Yuan Muzhi, 1935) One of the earliest non-silent features on China film, Scenes of City Life was famed actor Yuan Muzhi’s directorial debut, and also starred Lan Ping, also known as Jiang Qing, who would eventually marry Mao Zedong and become a member of the Gang of Four.
Aug 11, 2022 · Shanghai’s newfound lively dynamic contributed to the “golden age” of Chinese cinema which took place in the 1930s. It is also known as a “leftist movement,” due to the production of socially and politically revolutionary films. That was a result of the dispute between the Kuomintang and Communist parties which was actively reflected ...
Oct 22, 2022 · They include Yuan Jiajun, the party secretary of Zhejiang Province, who once oversaw China’s manned space program. ... After the Communist Party began its twice-a-decade congress in Beijing on ...
