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Mingxing, Fate in Tears and Laughter (film)

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... that the Mingxing Film Company (logo pictured) paid off a gangster so it could release Fate in Tears and Laughter?

Source: *Huang, Xuelei (2014). Shanghai Filmmaking: Crossing Borders, Connecting to the Globe, 1922–1938. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-27933-9. Quote: "After a long process of legal negotiations, they agreed to an out-of-court settlement. Since Gu Wuwei had secured protection from mafia boss Huang Jinrong 黃金榮 (1867–1953), Mingxing had to seek an equally strong protector—the Green Gang head Du Yuesheng 杜月笙 (1888–1951). With Du as intermediary, Mingxing gained a nominal victory at a heavy price: 100,000 Yuan for Du’s ‘protection’ and Gu Wuwei’s ‘losses.’"

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Clifton House School (double nom)

5x expanded by Crisco 1492 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 727 past nominations.

— Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:23, 27 December 2024 (UTC).

Will review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 17:16, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

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Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

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QPQ: Done.

Overall: Looks good. Nice work. Not necessary for approval, but I was wondering, @Crisco 1492:, is there a reason the article is titled "Mingxing" instead of "Mingxing Film Company"? BeanieFan11 (talk) 22:30, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi BeanieFan11; it was moved from Mingxing Film Corporation to Mingxing by Zanhe in 2018, citing Wikipedia:Naming conventions (companies) (most likely #Default to the most common name). Personally, I feel like for non-English titles it makes sense to have an English-language disambiguator, but policy does seem to point to keeping Mingxing. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:37, 27 December 2024 (UTC)