Yang Naimei
{{short description|Chinese actress}}
{{family name hatnote|Yang|lang=Chinese}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Yang Naimei
| image = Yang Naimei, Liangyou, 1926-05-15.jpg
| caption = Yang in 1926
| native_name = {{lang|zh|楊耐梅}}
| birth_date = {{birth year|1904}}
| birth_place = China
| death_date = December 27, {{death year and age|1960|1904}}
| death_place =
| other_names = Nai-Mei Yang, Naimei Yang
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1924-1930s
}}
Yang Naimei ({{zh|t=楊耐梅}}; 1904 – December 27, 1960) was an actress of China's silent film era. She starred in such well-received films as The Soul of Yuli (1924), Lonely Orchid (1926), Spring Dream by the Lakeside (1927) and The Young Mistress' Fan (1928).{{cite book | last = Ye| first = Tan|author2=Zhu, Yun | title =Historical Dictionary of Chinese Cinema |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=javqwyBe0WoC&pg=PA193 | publisher = Rowman & Littlefield| year = 2012| page = 193| isbn =978-0810867796}}
In 1926–28 Yang played lead roles in films which put her among the top-ranked Chinese film actresses of the 1920s.
Career
Yang's breakthrough role was in The Soul of Yuli (1924), where she played a dissolute playgirl who wouldn't settle down after marriage. Yang then played lead roles in The Poor Children and Lured into Marriage.
In 1928 Yang opened the Naimei Film Company which produced one film in the same year, An Extraordinary Woman ({{lang-zh|c=奇女子}}). She would tour Nanyang (Chinese communities in modern-day Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia) between 1929 and 1931 to promote the film.{{Cite journal |last=Huang |first=Xuelei |date=2024-03-13 |title=The ‘Queer Woman’ between Shanghai and Nanyang, 1920s–1930s |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17508061.2024.2320608 |journal=Journal of Chinese Cinemas |language=en |pages=1–20 |doi=10.1080/17508061.2024.2320608 |issn=1750-8061 |doi-access=free|url-access=subscription }} Yang retired from acting in the mid-1930s.
References
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External links
- [http://history.cultural-china.com/en/224History11200.html Yang Naimei 杨耐梅: A Playgirl's Brief Candle]
- [https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/yang-naimei/ Yang Naimei at wfpp.columbia.edu]
- [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3550725/ Nai-Mei Yang at imdb.com]
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Category:Chinese silent film actresses
Category:Chinese film actresses
Category:Actresses from Shanghai
Category:20th-century Chinese actresses