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The art of filmmaking was introduced to China with screenings by the French Lumière brothers in Shanghai in 1896, less than one year after they debuted their work in Paris. China’s film industry, centred in Shanghai, began to thrive over a decade later, around 1906. Initially, Chinese cinema consisted mainly of static filming of the Beijing Opera, where traditions of the Chinese operatic stage dictated that men played the female parts.
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Colet, C., Selbo, J., Warner, J.B. (2015). China and Hong Kong. In: Nelmes, J., Selbo, J. (eds) Women Screenwriters. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137312372_11
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