| Scenes of City Life | |
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| 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 |
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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.