文档介绍：HKUST SOSC005
March 11, 2005
Mirana May Szeto
Hong Kong Everyday Culture:
Film & Literature
Lai Man-wai黎民偉
The Lai brothers made China’s first narrative short film “Zhuangzi Tests His Wife”(1931) China’s first feature-length film “Rouge”(1924), first newsreel, scenery film and documentary. He made “War Against the Warlords”
(1921-8), the only
film record of the
campaign. He joined
the Xingzhonghui
and Tongmenghui,
& participated in the
1911 revolution.
China Sun (Minxin) 1923:
Lai, is a pioneer in Hong Kong/Chinese cinema. He established the first Chinese Film Studio in Hong Kong and introduced foreign film technology to Hong Kong.
Founded Hong Kong’s first Chinese-owned theatre “New World.”
Spread filming activities to Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing and all of China.
Liberated Modern Man:
Activist in “people’s theatre”– started the troupe Ching Ping Lok (清平樂) to spread the ideas of revolution.
Believe in liberated sexuality and equality between the sexes.
First man to play a female role in Chinese film and worked alongside his wife in his entire career.
The modern wuxia novel and film:
During the Republican period (1911-1949), the modern wuxia novel came into being in popular culture, when in high culture, the May 4th Movement since 1919 pressed for modernization and the total rejection of traditional Chinese culture.
A new May 4th literature evolved, calling for a break with Confucian values.
In popular culture, the xia emerged as a parallel symbol of personal freedom, defiance to Confucian tradition, and rejection of the Chinese family system. As a literary form of popular protest, wuxia films and literature were banned at various times during the Republican era (1911-1949 in mainland China).
Competition between the Northern School & the Southern School of wuxia fiction & film:
The Northern school centered in Beijing followed the
traditional approach of the storyteller &
the classical novel. These works focused
on traditional values & were