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Chinese name
  
鄭正秋 (traditional)

Children
  
Xiaoqiu Zheng

Role
  
Filmmaker

Name
  
Zheng Zhengqiu

Chinese name
  
郑正秋 (simplified)



Born
  
January 25, 1889Shanghai, China (
1889-01-25
)

Occupation
  
Film director, Screenwriter, Producer

Died
  
July 16, 1935, Shanghai, China

Movies
  
The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple, The Classic for Girls, Twin Sisters

People also search for
  
Zhang Shichuan, Xiaoqiu Zheng, Hu Die

Zheng Zhengqiu (Chinese: 鄭正秋; January 25, 1889 – July 16, 1935) was a Chinese filmmaker often considered a "founding father" of Chinese cinema.

Biography

Born in Shanghai in 1889, Zheng Zhengqiu was a young intellectual involved in China's theater scene when he and his friend and colleague, Zhang Shichuan, made the first Chinese film, the short, The Difficult Couple in 1913. The two men would come together again in 1922 with the founding of the seminal Mingxing Film Company, which would dominate Shanghai's film industry for the next fifteen years.

While with Mingxing, Zheng served not only as screenwriter and director, but as a studio manager and producer, personally writing and directing 53 films before his early death in 1935. Like many of his colleagues during the period, Zheng was devoted to leftist causes and social justice, themes that were evident in many of his works.

After his partner, Zhang Shichuan, rescued Xuan Jinglin from a brothel, Zheng Zhengqiu devised her stage name. He based it on the name she had adopted in the brothel and a transliteration of Lillian Gish into Chinese said in a Shanghai accent.

References

Zheng Zhengqiu Wikipedia


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