Category: Chinese Movies&TV

The No.1 Film Carline in China: Xuan Jinglin (宣景琳)

Xuan Jinglin(宣景琳 Xuān Jǐnglín) was born in 1907, called the No.1 film carline in China. Although she had a highly successful film career, Xuan Jinglin had a very bad start in life, with a sad and bitter childhood. She was born in Shanghai, the youngest of six children (five girls and one boy) of a newspaper deliveryman. The father died when she was four months old, leaving his widow and children, already poor, in desperate straits. The only income they had was what little money her uncles, the mother's brothers, were able to give them. Jinglin received some education when a school operated by a Christian church waived the tuition for her to attend classes. But this also turned out to be a bad experience for the little girl, as her affluent classmates teased her unmercifully about her family's poverty and her hand-me-down clothes, and she often came home in tears. When the uncles died one after another, Xuan Jinglin's mother had no recourse but to sell her youngest daughter to a brothel, in effect sentencing her to an abysmal, and probably short, life of degradation.

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Book Which Came from the Sky (天书奇谭)

Today, I will introduce a Chinese animated feature produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio which called Book Which Came from the Sky (天书奇谭tiān shū qí tán ). It is also referred to as "Legend of Sealed Book", "Tales about the Heavenly Book" and "Secrets of the Heavenly Book". So let us have a brief introduction.

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Famous Chinese Actress, Wang Hanlun (王汉伦)

The actress who Chinese moviegoers knew as Wang Hanlun(王汉伦 Wáng Hànlún) was born Peng Jianqing(彭剑青 Péng Jiànqīng) in 1903 in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. Her early life had much in common with that of Songlian(颂莲 Sòng Lián), the protagonist of Zhang Yimou's(张艺谋 Zhāng Yìmóu) 1991 movie "Raise the Red Lantern"(大红灯笼高高挂 dàhóng dēnglóng gāogāo guà), a character played by Gong Li(巩俐 Gǒng Lì). The tragedy cast a shadow on her life.

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