Lo Ming-yau | |
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| Born | 1900 |
| Died | 1967 (aged 66–67) British Hong Kong |
| Alma mater | Peking University |
Lo Ming-yau (1900–1967) or Luo Mingyou was a Hong Kong entrepreneur and filmmaker, and a pioneer of Chinese cinema. His uncle Lo Wen-kan (羅文榦, Luo Wengan) was a major politician during the early Republican period.
Lo Ming-yau founded the Hwa Peh Film Company (華北電影公司) in Beijing in 1927. In 1930, Hwa Peh Film Company merged with Lai Man-Wai's China Sun Motion Picture Company and a few other companies in Shanghai to become United Photoplay Service, one of the biggest film studios in China.[1]
In 1936 Lo Ming-yau was forced to withdraw from United Photoplay Service and later made his living as a Christian priest. [2]
- ^ Fu, Poshek (2005). "Rewriting Lo Ming-yau: Between China and Hong Kong". The Hong Kong – Guangdong Film Connection. Hong Kong Film Archive.
- ^ Zhang, Yingjin (2004). Cinema and the Nation-People. Routledge. p. 62. ISBN 9780203645833.