Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Mingxing films/archive1

List of Mingxing films

Featured list candidates/List of Mingxing films/archive1

Nominator(s): — Chris Woodrich (talk) 19:09, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured list because I believe it meets all of the criteria. Mingxing was something of a big deal in Republican Shanghai, and this list provides readers with a list of their film productions as well as the necessary context to follow the evolution of its filmic output. I'm a bit rusty on tables, but I believe that it meets all accessibility guidelines. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 19:09, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Wolverine

Here are my comments:

The Mingxing Film Company, based in Shanghai, the Republic of China, released 174 narrative films between its establishment in 1922 and 1938, the year after its closure. I think this can better be phrased. Perhaps you should say something like "The Mingxing Film Company was an entertainment company that was based in Shanghai, the Republic of China (in what is now China) between 1922 and 1938. The company released 174 narrative films" or something like that. The last part of the sentence also makes no sense to me; did the company close its doors in 1937 or 1938?
- Rephrased to "Mingxing was a film production company based in Shanghai, the Republic of China. It released 174 narrative films between its establishment in 1922 and 1938, the year after it closed in the face of the Second Sino-Japanese War." The company's year of disestablishment was 1937; however, its film productions did continue to be released into the following year.
- As for the years: Per the source, "On 7 July 1937 the full-scale Sino-Japanese war broke out. A month later Shanghai was caught in war and fell into the hands of the Japanese imperial army after a fierce three-month battle, leaving the International Settlement and the French Concession unoccupied until December 1941. Located in the city’s Chinese sector, Mingxing’s new business premises were occupied by the Japanese and used as barracks following the fall of the district. The company virtually ceased operating from then on.166 Nominally it still existed, and traces of its nominal existence were left. After an initial period of war-time chaos, the spring of 1938 saw renewed popular passion for entertainment as the city gradually settled in the new environment. Four Mingxing films produced immediately prior to the war appeared on the screen". In short, Mingxing closed its doors, but the films themselves still had the opportunity to be distributed. The literature tends to use the 1937 date as the date of disestablishment. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:39, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Mingxing's fortunes changed I'm not too sure about "fortunes"

Changed to "This situation changed" — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:39, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

and was later distributed throughout China Is this not the Republic of China?

The pre-1950 Republic of China encompassed mainland China and Taiwan. I can use Republic of China in all instances, but just like List of film directors of the Dutch East Indies used "Indies" after first mention, I believe that China is sufficiently contextualized. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:39, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

following the success of Tianyi's Heroine Li Feifei (1925), wuxia (martial arts) films. Following their success, what happened?

The full sentence is These [films] included further melodramas with moral lessons and, following the success of Tianyi's Heroine Li Feifei (1925), wuxia (martial arts) films. So, in brief, Mingxing began to produce wuxia films over and above its melodramas. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:39, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This expanded to include leftist cinema following the arrival of screenwriters such as Qian Xingcun and Xia Yan, working under pseudonyms, in the 1930s. Not sure what "this" implies and an explanation or a link to "leftist cinema" would be helpful

Rephrased to "The company's productions expanded to include leftist cinema following the arrival of screenwriters such as Qian Xingcun and Xia Yan, working under pseudonyms, in the 1930s." I'll make a footnote, because apparently we don't have an article on leftist cinema. In brief, though, it was stories produced by communists with explicitly pro-proletarian themes. Given that the ruling Kuomintang was actively hunting communists... it took gumption. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:39, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There's unnecessary space between the lead and the first section

I keep removing the space after NOTOC, and it keeps coming back. Not sure why. Removed again — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:39, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And that's my lot. Great article, not too much for me to complain about, and if you do have the time I'd really appreciate a review of my nomination here. Thanks, Wolverine X-eye ^{(talk to me)} 06:15, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]