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    • Module 1: Laborer’s Love (1922)
    • Module 2: Sports Queen (1934)
    • Module 3: Goddess (1934)
    • Module 4: The Great Road (1934)
    • Module 5: New Women (1935)
    • Module 6: Song at Midnight (1937)
    • Module 7: Street Angels (1937)
    • Module 8: Long Live the Missus! (1947)
    • Module 9: Spring River Flows East (1947)
    • Module 10: Spring in a Small Town (1948)
    • Module 11: Crows and Sparrows (1949)
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Zhang Shankun

Princess Iron Fan 1941

Princess Iron Fan 鐵扇公主 (1941)

Monkey and companions try to outwit a demon’s wife in this animated feature film, which adapts an episode from Journey to the West.

Hua Mu Lan 1939

Hua Mu Lan 木蘭從軍 (1939)

A young woman takes her father’s place in the army and protects the Tang empire from invaders in this wartime adaptation of the Mulan legend.

Song at Midnight 1937

Song at Midnight 夜半歌聲 (1937)

Phantom of the Opera and Nosferatu meet underground revolutionary history in China’s first horror-musical.

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