Time Travel: Which Memories Are Silent?

Author: Liu Shu, edited by Yu Mao
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Comfortable, originally named Shu Changge, originally from Cixi, Zhejiang, born in Beijing in 1916, famous Chinese film actor and director. Influenced by his father, Shu Changge developed a love for Peking Opera from a young age and began performing in makeup at the age of ten, once studying under Mei Lanfang. In 1933, he entered Fudan University and later transferred to the Law Department of Zhizhi University. In 1935, he joined the Shanghai University Drama Association and performed in the play "Black Hell." After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he dropped out of school and joined Yu Ling's Qingniao Drama Society, performing in plays such as "Thunderstorm" and "Sunrise." He also performed in over 40 plays in drama societies like Xiaofeng and Zhongfa, including "Wu Zetian," "The True Story of Ah-Q," "The Wild Field," and "Yue Fei," becoming a highly acclaimed young actor on the Shanghai theater scene at the time. The book uses straightforward text and numerous old photographs preserved over the years to tell the extraordinary lives of three elderly Chinese film stars—Shu Changge, Murong Wan'er, and Fenghuang—whose artistic and emotional journeys intertwined. Whether it's Shu Changge being expelled by the Governor of Hong Kong, Murong Wan'er's steadfast follow-through, or Murong Wan'er's tragic death during the Cultural Revolution, or the subsequent of Shu Changge and Fenghuang, who faced hardships together and remain together to this day—all are deeply moving. Most of the photos in the book are being revealed to the public for the first time.