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Xiand yingxi: the interaction between traditional theatre and Chinese cinema

Uploaded 1 November 2000 Cinema arrived in China from the West in 1896, one year after the Lumière brothers showed their films in a café in Paris on 28 December 1895, a date generally considered as the beginning of cinema in the world. From 1905 on, with a constant influx of foreign films, China developed its own film industry, merging …

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