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While Beijing integrates very ancient architecture with the new, Shanghai's skyline focuses more on the ultra-modern. Located south of Beijing, Shanghai connects to Beijing via high speed bullet train that includes full service dining as well as private sleeping cars. The train makes the trip between the two cities in approximately 8 hours.
Ben Meyers
Editor in Chief
Editorial
As we've moved through the birth of cinema in Germany to Australia to France to Russia, we've learned that cinema has been almost a simultaneous release and growth throughout European and southern hemisphere countries. That trend continues into China as it receives the Lumiere Brothers' camera in 1896. It is not long after that date that small theaters become a part of both the landscape and pastime of the people. A Chinese opera, Dingjun Mountain, releases in 1905 and the industry is up and running. We welcome you to this issue of Ben Meyers International Entertainment Magazine Focus China as we examine China's contribution to the world of entertainment.
Ben Meyers
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CONTENTS
Broadening and Expanding Focus, Those Intriguing Inventors and Experimenters
Stars Are Born, Then and Now
Those Intriguing Chinese Film Festivals!
Places to Go and Things to See
When Intrigue Counts, GO China
Broadening and Expanding Focus, Those Intriguing Entrepreneurs and Experimenters
by Ben Meyers
In 1896 one of the Lumiere Brothers, Louis Lumiere, requests his cameraman take the Cinematographe motion picture camera into China via Shanghai, the largest city in China. That same year Shanghai populations view a small sample of what the camera can do and by 1905 they are watching a famous Chinese opera, Dingjun Mountain, on film. The beginning of the industry is not much different than that of the rest of Europe. Short, black and white, silent comedies entertain audiences before the longer drama films take hold of the industry.
Chinese Stars, Then and Now
China already had a thriving theatre industry. It was natural for theatre actors to move to this new form of entertainment.
Hu The
Jin Yan
Zheng Zhegu
Zheng Zheng
Xuan Jinglin
Helen Wang
Jet Li
Chen Hao
Tiantan Award
The Golden Goblet Award
Those Intriguing Chinese Film Festivals!
Beijing International Film Festival
BJIFF
Beijing, China
April
The Beijing International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in the 3000-year-old city city of Beijing , a world city of 22 million people.
Shanghai International Film Festival
SIFF
Shanghai, China
June
The Shanghai International Film Festival focuses on feature films, short films, animation, and documentaries.
Shanghai has the largest container export facilities in the world, supports 30 million inhabitants, annually receives 6 million domestic and foreign tourists, and is considered the womb of Chinese cinema.
Places to Go and Things to See
ORIENTAL MOVIE METROPOLIS STUDIO
This studio houses a wax museum, a film museum, largest eastern film theatre, and indoor theme park. It includes a shopping mall, a water studio, and hotels.
When Intrigue Counts, GO China
CAR
Cuisine
Chinese Pets
CLOCK
Mah Jong
CHINESE CHECKERS
BOOKS
LEATHER GOODS
CLOTHING
When Intrigue Counts, GO China
This magazine is informationally driven by the following websites which we are gratefully indebted to and thank you for the collections of information we had access to create the first draft issue of Ben Meyers International Entertainment Magazine. We hope you enjoy our next issue with its Focus on The United States.
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