Song of China

Song of China
Directed by	Fei Mu; Luo Mingyou
Produced by	Luo Mingyou
Written by	Zhong Shigen
Starring	Zheng Junli; Chen Yen-yen; Lim Cho Cho; Zhang Yi; Lai Cheuk-Cheuk
Music by	Wei Zhongle
Cinematography	Wang Shaofen
Production; company	Lianhua Film Company
Release date	China:; 1935; United States:; November 9, 1936
Running time	65 min
Country	China
Language	Mandarin

Song of China (Chinese: 天伦; pinyin: Tiān lún) also known as Filial Piety is a 1935 Chinese film directed by Fei Mu and Luo Mingyou for the Lianhua Film Company.

Unlike earlier Lianhua films that railed against traditional society, Song of China is representative of the New Life Movement of Chiang Kai-shek, which celebrates traditional Confucian values.[1]

Song of China is one of the few Chinese films made in the 1930s to be screened in the United States.[1]

Cast

Zheng Junli
Chen Yen-yen
Lim Cho Cho
Zhang Yi
Lai Cheuk-Cheuk

Plot

A young man (Zheng Junli) returns home to see his elderly father before the latter dies. The father tells his son to extend the love he feels for his family to the greater good. The young man tries to teach the same principles to his children, who instead run off to the city to enjoy the city.

The man, however, moves to the countryside to build an orphanage. When his children eventually return, he gives them the same advice his father had given him.

gollark: I mean, it would be less arbitrary by some metrics to go "nothing is a person, human life has value 0" but people don't like that.

gollark: A more arbitrary rule might be better if it lines up with moral intuitions even.

gollark: That is still not actually objective. Also, threshold of probability on that?

gollark: The best you can do is pick a "less arbitrary" one somehow.

gollark: Again, is-ought problem, you can't objectively get the Right™ definition for human life.

References

"Song of China, aka Filial Piety (Tianlun)". UCSD Chinese Cinema Web-based learning center. 2003. Archived from the original on 2007-08-14. Retrieved 2007-12-27.

External links

Song of China on IMDb
Song of China at AllMovie
Song of China at the UCSD Chinese Cinema Web-based learning center

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[UCSD-1] "Song of China, aka Filial Piety (Tianlun)". UCSD Chinese Cinema Web-based learning center. 2003. Archived from the original on 2007-08-14. Retrieved 2007-12-27.