Every Chinese character is composed of several strokes, which include the horizontal stroke, vertical stroke, a long left-falling stroke, dot, right-falling knife-shaped stroke, short [Read More...]

Wu Lizhu 邬丽珠 (1910-1978.6.23). Actress. Born Dinghai, Zhejiang province. Was fond of martial arts from childhood. Entered motion pictures in 1925 with a supporting role in the Shanghai [Read More...]

Chinese riddles are closely connected with the shape, pronunciation or meaning of Chinese characters. A line in the fifth-century work of literary criticism Wenxin Diaolong (The Literary Mind and [Read More...]

Though her father once gave a university student named Mao Zedongshelter in his home, Wang Renmei was almost destroyed by the “NewChina” she so vigorously supported. Born in Changsha [Read More...]

Zhou Shimu 周诗穆 (1902 – 1980) b.Ningpo, Zhejiang. Joined the Shanghai Commercial Press Motion Picture Division in 1917 as an apprentice in photography and film processing. After [Read More...]

China is home to countless accents and dialects, making communication difficult. In fact, there is no one “Chinese” language. Rather there is a collection of dialects unified by a [Read More...]

Actor/director. Born September 27, 1904 in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. After graduating from high school in Shanghai, he enrolled in the Mingxing studio film school as an actor, then made his initial [Read More...]

The Chinese language is spoken by the largest population all over the world. Given an extensive territory, people from different regions of China speak Chinese in different ways. If you come to [Read More...]

Ding Ziming (1907-1997): a maid of constant sorrow The actress universally recognized as the great tragedienne of China’s silent film era is the legendary Ruan Lingyu. But before Ruan came [Read More...]

When in the mid-1980s the productions of such prominent Chinese directors as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige began receiving international attention, references to "China’s Fifth [Read More...]