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The Beauty Of Shanghai - Ruan Ling Yu Maire-Laure de Shazer

Before the establishment of the Republic, the public regarded actresses as prostitutes and actors as homosexuals. Women were briefly banned from the stage and only men could become actors The public accepted men dressing up like women. But when a woman wanted to go on stage, she was booed, humiliated and rejected. Since the arrival of Hollywood in China, Ruan Ling Yu, the Chinese Greta Garbo, born to a working class family, dares to break the traditions and the old mentalities . Would she succeed?