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Biography
Zhang was born in Panyu County, Guangdong (now part of Guangzhou) in 1904. She moved to Shanghai in her youth. She completed several years of schooling, but dropped out in her junior secondary years due to a lack of funds.
In 1923, Zhang responded to an advertisement from the Greater China Film Company [zh] seeking interested women to act in its films. More than ten thousand women who submitted their photograph. Initially, Zhang's portrait was not included in the pictures reviewed by Greater China. It was later found that ten photograph's, including Zhang's, had been taken by a journalist with the Shen Bao – whose mailbox the company had used. Zhang was selected for the company's upcoming productions, and the theft of her portrait was used to generate hype. Zhang spent two years with Greater China, completing such films as The Human Heart<--人心--> and Valour in War.
Zhang signed with the Mingxing Film Company in 1925, making her first appearance in A Sincerely Pitiful Girl. Over the next three years she made seven films for the company, including Lonely Orchid,
in which she portrayed the dual role of a lovelorn young woman and the servant whose death is mistaken for hers. Between August and September 1926, the Shanghai-based newspaper Shen Bao held a reader's choice award for favourite actress; Zhang won the poll, receiving 2,146 vallots and being crowned the newspaper's "Movie Queen". Around this time, Zhang moved in with the director Bu Wancang, though the couple had broken up by 1927.
After completing Fallen Plum Blossoms for Mingxing, Zhang left the company for its rival Minxin. For her role in Pure as Ice, she gained audience recognition as a tragedy performer, with the magazine Movie Life (影戲生活; 影戏生活) comparing her to Lillian Gish. She later began dating Tang Jishan, with whom she spent time in the United States, but they separated after Tang began romancing fellow actress Ruan Lingyu.
In 1933, Zhang featured in Mingxing's film Lovelorn. Intended to tell her life's story, the sound film suffered because of Zhang's poor command of Mandarin – the language of dialogue – and was received negatively. She appeared in several further films, including 1935's Fan of Peach Blossoms and 1937's Cantonese-language Proud Daughter of Heaven, before settling in Hong Kong with her husband Zhang Shuping in the 1950s.
Zhang made her final film appearance, a cameo as a beauty pageant panelist alongside Yang Naimei and Wu Suxin, in the early 1950s Heavenly Beauty. She died sometime in the mid-1970s.
Filmography
| † | Indicates film is extant |
| English title | Traditional Chinese | Simplified Chinese | Release | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Human Heart | 人心 | 人心 | – | |
| Valour in War | 戰功 | 战功 | – | |
| A Sincerely Pitiful Girl | 可憐的閨女 | 可怜的闺女 | 1925 | |
| A New Family † | 新人的家庭 | 新人的家庭 | 1926 | |
| Lonely Orchid | 空谷蘭 | 空谷兰 | 1926 | |
| Fiancée | 未婚妻 | 未婚妻 | 1926 | |
| Love and Gold | 愛情與黃金 | 爱情与黄金 | 1926 | |
| Sacrifice for the Family | 為親犧牲 | 为亲牺牲 | 1927 | |
| Fallen Plum Blossoms | 梅花落 | 梅花落 | 1927 | |
| Pure as Ice | 玉潔冰清 | 玉洁冰清 | ||
| Lovelorn | 失戀 | 失恋 | 1933 | |
| Fan of Peach Blossoms | 新桃花扇 | 新桃花扇 | 1935 | |
| Proud Daughter of Heaven | 天之驕女 | 天之骄女 | 1937 | |
| Proud Daughter of Heaven | 天堂美女 | 天堂美女 |
References
- ^ Jing, n.d.
- Huang 2014, pp. 284–315.
- Huang 2014, pp. 165–166; Zhang 2018, p. 152, 156
- ^ Huang 2014, p. 298.
- ^ Huang 2014, p. 304.
- The Chinese Mirror, Wu Suxin harvnb error: no target: CITEREFThe_Chinese_Mirror,_Wu_Suxin (help); (Jing, n.d.)
- Huang 2014, p. 294.
- Huang 2014, pp. 309–310.
- Huang 2014, pp. 294–295.
- Huang 2014, pp. 306–307.
- Huang 2014, p. 284.
- Huang 2014, p. 307.
Works cited
- Huang, Xuelei (2014). Shanghai Filmmaking: Crossing Borders, Connecting to the Globe, 1922–1938. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-27933-9.
- Jing Zhiyu (景智宇). 张织云：中国第一位电影皇后 [Zhang Zhiyun: China's First Movie Queen] (in Chinese). Huangpu District Archives. Archived from the original on 25 June 2024.
- Zhang Yu (張玉) (2018). 1920年代の中国における黒岩涙香野の花の受容 [The Reception of Kurogan Ruikou's No No Hana in China in the 1920s: Focusing on the Silent Film Lonely Orchid] (PDF). Border Crossings: The Journal of Japanese-Language Literature Studies (in Japanese). 6 (1): 147–163. doi:10.22628/bcjjl.2018.6.1.147. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 March 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2024.