Hou Yao and Li Minwei

Hou Yao, born in 1903, in Panyu in Guangdong, studied at Southeast University, in Nanjing, until 1924, and in 1925 published the first Chinese book of film theory. Settled in Hong Kong, he left for Singapore to work for the Shaws and was executed there by the Japanese army in 1942. Li Minwei, born in Yokohama in 1893 into a family from Xinhui, was a pioneer of Hong Kong cinema; in 1922 he founded the Minxin, which was moved to Shanghai in 1925. His wife Yan Shanshan was Hong Kong's first actress, according to Hong Kong Memory.

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• CinemaRomance of the Western Chamber西廂記Hou Yao and Li Minwei · 1927Cinema