Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Cast of Characters in the Life of Jin Yan; Chapter 1 -- Growing Up in Exile; Chapter 2 -Breaking into the Shanghai Film World; Chapter 3 -- "The Emperor of Film"; Chapter 4 -- The Japanese Strike; Chapter 5 -- The War Years; Photograph Plates; Chapter 6 -- The New China; Chapter 7 -- Sick and Alone; Chapter 8 -- The Legacy of Jin Yan; Interview with Qin Yi; Filmography of Jin Yan; Sources for Jin Yan's Films; Bibliography; About the Author
Summary
Recounts the life of the actor who dominated the golden age of Chinese silent movies, achieving his greatest stardom in the 1930s
