摘要
Chinese cinema is one of the oldest film industries in the world,with the first Chinese film Dingjun Mountain being released in 1905.For the next decade,production com pa nies were foreign-owned and the domestic industry was not active until the 1920s.During the 1920s,American movie makers visited Shanghai in order to train Chinese film technicians,heavily influencing the early years of Chinese cinema.Throughout the 1920s and 30s Shanghai began to emerge as the center of pop culture and a symbol of modernity in the Middle Kingdom.
