Shen Xiling
Shen Xiling (Chinese: 沈 西 苓, 1904 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, † December 19, 1940 in Chongqing) was a Chinese film director and screenwriter.
Shen Xiling studied textile dyeing before turning to art. He first completed an internship as a set designer at a Japanese theater. In 1928 he returned to China and became involved in theater groups at the left, taught at two art schools, and worked as a shop window designer.
In 1931 he took a bid as a production designer at the film company Tianyi to work. Shen wrote his first screenplay, The Protest of Women, but his desire to take over the film was rejected by the studio. Shen then went to the film company Mingxing where he was able to film his script in 1933. His second film Twenty-Four Hours in Shanghai (1933) had problems with the censorship, he was only released after cuts. Shen Xiling refused to publish the mutilated version, but the studio consisted of economic interests. In spite of his disagreement he stayed with Mingxing until 1937. He was involved in the production of the financially successful films Zi Mei Hua (Twin Sisters, 1934) by Zheng Zhengqiu and The Trouble with Daughters (1934) by Zhang Shichuan and directed the Chinese classics of the 1930s: Homesick, Boatman's Daughter (both 1935) and especially Shizi jietou (Crossroads, 1937) with Zhao Dan and Bai Yang.
Shen then moved to Lianhua, where he was promised the director of The True Story of Ah, an adaptation of a well-known short story by Lu Xun. Because of the beginning of the Japanese-Chinese war the project was no longer possible. After the capture of Shanghai by the Japanese, Shen went to Chongqing in 1938, where he filmed for Nationalist Central Film Studio Children of China (1939).
Shen Xiling starb 1940 an Typhus.
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