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Ouyang Yuqian

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Although a famous Peking opera performer, Ouyang was also active in promoting the "New Play" (spoken drama). He joined several New Play societies in the 1910s and co-founded several pioneering drama troupes, including the Masses Theatre Society, the Drama Cooperative Society
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in 1922, they invited Ouyang Yuqian to join their studio, but Ouyang declined because, according to himself, he was earning a "substantial salary" as a Peking opera performer. He did help out on several occasions, but at the same time wrote three films for the rival
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actor and writer, film screenwriter and director, and drama educator. He is considered by drama historians as one of the three founders of the modern Chinese spoken drama, together with
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of classical Chinese culture, as a free-spirited woman victimized by a male-dominated traditional society. He played the title role himself.
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and established a school for the art. He established Guangxi Provincial Art Museum in 1940, and an art theatre 1944. In 1944, he and
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organized the First Southwest Opera Expo in Guilin, which lasted three months and attracted almost a thousand performers.
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of Shanghai. He joined the Left-Wing Dramatist League in Guangzhou and participated in the first drama festival in the
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In his later years, he published several memoirs and books on film and drama theory, and a book on
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in southwest China, which was largely free from Japanese occupation. He studied
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When he was 15, Ouyang went to study in Japan. He graduated from Seijo School (
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Ouyang Yuqian born on 12 May 1889 into a wealthy and highly educated family in
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in 1946 and served as the playwright-director of New China Drama Society (
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from 1950 until his death in 1962. He also served as vice chairman of the
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Shanghai Filmmaking: Crossing Borders, Connecting to the Globe, 1922-1938
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He returned to China in 1911 and founded the New Play Comrade Society (
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dances. On 21 September 1962, Ouyang Yuqian died of an illness in
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Province, to establish the Guangdong Drama Research Institute in
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After returning to Shanghai in 1934, Ouyang Yuqian joined
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from 1926 to 1928. He acted in two of the three films,
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to establish an actors' school and the Gengsu Theatre (
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Province. His father was Ouyang Ligeng (Chinese:
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Archived from 1061: 1059: 1057: 762:in 1937. While he was shooting the film 1308:Chinese male dramatists and playwrights 971: 676:In 1929, Ouyang Yuqian was invited by 449:), and mother Liu Yixia (Chinese: 311: 1131: 1114: 1026: 1024: 1022: 1020: 1018: 1016: 1014: 1012: 1010: 864:In March 1949, he was invited by the 503:Early career — Peking opera and drama 7: 1323:Female impersonators in Peking opera 1099: 1008: 1006: 1004: 1002: 1000: 998: 996: 994: 992: 990: 981: 696:. In 1933, he joined Chen Mingshu's 1143: 1303:Chinese dramatists and playwrights 1228:. 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Index

Chinese name
family name
Ouyang
Ouyang Yuqian
Liuyang
Hunan
Qing China
Beijing
Chinese
Meiji University
Waseda University
Peking Opera
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Wade–Giles
IPA
[óʊ.jǎŋjù.tɕʰân]
Chinese
Peking opera
Tian Han
Hong Shen
Mei Lanfang
Central Academy of Drama
China Federation of Literary and Art Circles
Chinese Dramatists Association
Chinese Dancers Association
hao
Liuyang

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