Scenes of City Life

Scenes of City Life
Scenes of City Life
Traditional Chinese	都市風光
Simplified Chinese	都市风光
Literal meaning	metropolitan scenes
Hanyu Pinyin	dūshì fēngguāng
Wade–Giles	tu-shi feng-kuang
Directed by	Yuan Muzhi
Written by	Yuan Muzhi
Produced by	Ma Dejian
Cinematography	Wu Yinxian
Music by	He Luting
Production; company	Diantong Film Company
Release date	1935;
Running time	103 minutes
Country	China
Language	Mandarin

Scenes of City Life is a 1935 Chinese comedy-drama film directed by Yuan Muzhi.^[1] It is also translated as Cityscape. It is noted for being the first film directed by Yuan, as well as the first film appearance of Jiang Qing (or Lan Ping, as she then called herself), who later became Mao Zedong's fourth wife. The film deals with themes of struggle under a capitalist system. It is a type of Shanghai film from the 1930s that were all involved in music, cinema, fashion, advertising, which contributed to the "Shanghai mystique".^[2] This film shares the style at that time with other movies like music, cinema, fashion and advertising which contributed to "Shanghai mystique" which embodied Shanghai's sophisticated pride.

^ Building a new China in cinema: the Chinese left-wing cinema movement, 1932-1937 By Laikwan Pang. P. 54 at Google Books. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
^ Rojas, Carlos; Chow, Eileen Cheng-yin, eds. (2013). The Oxford handbook of Chinese cinemas. Oxford handbooks. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-976560-7.

[:2-1] Building a new China in cinema: the Chinese left-wing cinema movement, 1932-1937 By Laikwan Pang. P. 54 at Google Books. Retrieved 21 November 2009.

[2] Rojas, Carlos; Chow, Eileen Cheng-yin, eds. (2013). The Oxford handbook of Chinese cinemas. Oxford handbooks. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-976560-7.

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