Chen Bo'er

Chen Bo'er (Chinese: 陈波儿; pinyin: Chén Bō'ér; 1907–1951) was a Chinese actress, director, screenwriter, novelist, animator, educator and revolutionist who advocated the establishment of the People's Republic of China's first national film school.[1] During her lifetime she appeared in no less than four films and had a starring role in China's first sound motion picture Plunder of Peach and Plum.[2]

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Chen.
Chen Bo'er
Chen on the cover of Liangyou Magazine, 1930
Born
Chen Shunhua

(1907-07-15)July 15, 1907
Anbu, Guangdong, China
DiedNovember 10, 1951(1951-11-10) (aged 44)
OccupationActress
Spouse(s)Yuan Muzhi
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese陈波儿

Biography
Chen in 1935.

Chen was born Chen Shunhua (Chinese: 陈舜华) in 1907 in Anbu, Chaozhou, Guangdong Province. She graduated from Shanghai Art University in 1929 and married classmate Ren Bosheng in 1931. Settled in Hong Kong, Chen moved back to Shanghai where she appeared in a number of anti-Japanese productions including a 1937 dramatization of the Defense of Sihang Warehouse (八百壯士) and the Marco Polo Bridge Incident (保卫蘆溝橋). After joining the Chinese Communist Party she traveled with her son to Yan'an to direct films with strong female leads that promoted Maoist principles in order to recruit woman to the party.[1]

In 1947 Chen was sent North to oversea productions at North East Film Studio, here she wrote screenplays and created puppet animations which painted Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek as a stooge propping up American Imperialism. Chen who saw a continued future for animation decided to establish a permanent animation studio within the department and put animator Te Wei in charge. In the same year she married Yuan Muzhi before moving back to Shanghai a year later to establish a predecessor of the Beijing Film Academy.[1]

References
  1. Lent, Xu, John A, Ying (2017). Comics Art in China. University Press of Mississippi. p. 161. ISBN 9781496811776.
  2. "陈波儿". hqcr.com (in Chinese). Retrieved 7 November 2017.
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