Jin Yan: The Rudolph Valentino of Shanghai tells the remarkable story of the "Emperor of Film," who dominated the golden age of Chinese silent movies. Jin Yan (金錎) achieved his greatest stardom in the 1930s, when women literally threw themselves at his feet. Married first to the Shanghai actress Wang Renmei, his movie roles with "the Goddess" Ruan Ling-yu spurred public demand for more of them together in films made by the leading studio, Lianhua. It was Jin who made Ruan aware of film's awesome power to portray social problems while evading the censors with melodramatic soap opera formats.
Jin's life spanned the most turbulent period in modern Chinese history – a childhood escape from Japanese-occupied Korea, through the long civil war, the bitter Cultural Revolution, and Deng Xiaoping's reformation. Jin's embodiment of the modernizing May Fourth ideals of the 1920s and 30s added a new layer of sexuality to the liberal movement. But the Communists later cast Jin aside in their campaign to "learn from Lei Feng," a humble young soldier. As Jin's second wife Qin Yi rose to new heights in the politically charged film world, the sick and aging star languished in obscurity. Reproducing dozens of beautiful stills from the personal collection of Qin Yi and the China Film Archive, Richard Meyer contextualizes Jin's tragic transformation with riveting details on many fellow performers.
"Dr. Meyer insightfully places Jin Yan's films within the film industry in which they were made and the socio-political context-S...
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韓流在華濫觴，至少棒子可以公開說“金焰是韓國人”
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评分韓流在華濫觴，至少棒子可以公開說“金焰是韓國人”
评分韓流在華濫觴，至少棒子可以公開說“金焰是韓國人”
评分韓流在華濫觴，至少棒子可以公開說“金焰是韓國人”
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