Song at MIdnight: Song Danping (Jin Shan), before he is scarred, and his beloved Li Xiaoxia (Hu Ping)
Maxu Weibang in a photo montage, in Dianying zhoukan (1930)
A billboard advertising Song at MIdnight (Shanghai, 1937)
Song at MIdnight: Song Danping looks in the mirror and lays eyes on his deformity
Song at MIdnight, Part II: Song Danping (Liu Qiong) has acquired an even more monstrous face
Ruan Lingyu as Wei Ming in New Woman (Xin nuxing)
Jian Qing when she was Lan Ping, stage and film actress in 1930’s Shanghai
Staircase in Laborer’s Love (dir. Zhang Shichuan, 1922)
Blurry view through the spectacles in Laborer’s Love (dir. Zhang Shichuan, 1922)
Carpenter putting on glasses in Laborer’s Love (dir. Zhang Shichuan, 1922)
Li Lili, Wang Renmei, and Hu Jia perform song and dance routines for the Bright Moon (Source: Li Lili, Xingyun liushui pian [Beijing: Zhongguo dianyiing, 2001])
Li Lili, in a scene from Revenge in the Volcano’s Shadow (Source: Linglong 1932, no 69))
Scenes from the film Queen of Sports (Tiyu huanghou), starring Li Lili
A photo of Li Lili shot by the famous photographer Lang Jingshan (Source: Liangyou huabao Nov. 1933, no. 82: 11)
A still from Back to Nature (Dao ziran qu), starring Li Lili
In Little Toys (Xiao wanyi), Zhu’er (played by Li Lili) stands on a cart with a goat, a symbol of pure and innocent country roots, sitting below
A sexy scene of Li Lili and the “Movie King” Jin Yan in Back to Nature (Dao ziran qu)
A scene from Queen of Sports (Tiyu huanghou)
A scene from Queen of Sports (Tiyu huanghou)
This image of Li Lili combines sexiness with a girlish naughtiness (Source: Linglong 1933, no. 86: 288)