A Daughter’s Recollection: Xu Ru-Hui and Chinese Early Motion Picture Music

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Authors and Corporations: Wen-Xia, Xu
In: Asian Cinema, 17, 2006, 1, p. 194-220
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Intellect
Media Type: Article, E-Article

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Physical Description: 194-220
ISSN: 1059-440X
2049-6710
DOI: 10.1386/ac.17.1.194_1
published in: Asian Cinema
Language: English
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Collection: Intellect (CrossRef)
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<jats:p>One of the early explorers in motion picture music in China, Xu Ru-Hui, was born in July 1910 in Zhejiang. He arrived in Shanghai with his uncle in 1923 and joined the United Music Association of Shanghai, which was led by the Chinese music master Zheng Jian-Wen at the time, in 1925. He studied national classic music there including performance and composition, mastering over a hundred types of Chinese instruments. By the late 1920s, he had formed his own band called Midnight National Music, and had become one of the most famous pop music composers in Shanghai.</jats:p>