Hu Ping


Hu Ping was a Chinese actress, screenwriter and filmmaker from Hunan, China, born in Changsha. She started acting in Shanghai, in the theater industry and was a household name in Shanghai in the 1930s. She joined the Friends Film Company in 1931. Her movies included Love and Life, Awkward Tragedy, The Hero of the Sea, The History of the Greenwood and The Night Half Song.
Her fate is unknown. She went to Hong Kong after the Japanese invaded in 1937, but was unable to work. She found love and lived as a celebrity, "doing nothing every day, enjoying a leisurely life, going out to the karaoke, ballroom, cafe, singing, dancing." After the Japanese took Hong Kong in 1941, she fled to Chongqing. There was a rumor that she reluctantly married the commander of the Kuomintang troops in the Yunnan, a second wife, and was beaten and locked up after trying to flee, possibly committing suicide. The Encyclopedia Baidu said that she "was in a shadow, so few people knew her whereabouts" but that she was discovered in Changsha during the Cultural Revolution.
also known as the Liangyou pictorial, issue 67 in 1932.

Career

Hu Ping was working in a Changsha coffee shop when she was discovered by Chinese playwright Tian Han. Han, already making a living as a playwright, would later become known nationally as the writer of China's national anthem.
Han introduced her into the world of acting, first on the stage in plays, and later into movie acting. He took her to the Southern Drama Club in Shanghai where she got experience acting in plays such as Street Man and Scrambled Clock.

Movies

Drama Alliance or Union Film Company (友联影片公司)

She transferred into Xihua in 1936.