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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 606

The Peach Girl

193189 minChina

Video edition: YouTube
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Chinese.
This copy runs: 88:38
Subtitles: Subtitles embedded in the picture

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Synopsis

Childhood friendship grows into love between a landowner’s son and the daughter of a herder. His mother refuses to accept a match across the class divide, forcing the young couple to negotiate a world in which affection carries less weight than family standing. Their hopes collide with the economic dependence of the girl’s household.

Cast

Ruan Lingyu

Jin Yan

Li Shiyuan

Han Langen

DirectorsBu Wancang

Historical context

Ruan Lingyu and Jin Yan lead this Lianhua romance about lovers divided by social class. Their relationship exposes how family status can turn intimacy into a source of conflict.

Reference: Chinese Film Classics · University of British Columbia

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Chinese Film Classics identifies this YouTube copy as retaining the original Chinese–English title cards, with additional English translations by Christopher Rea when the texts differ. Its edition note also records a slightly longer display of the card at 10:43. These details describe this upload, not every surviving copy.

Reference: Chinese Film Classics · University of British Columbia

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Virtual Shanghai · CNRS Wikipedia Chinese Film Classics Wikimedia Commons · copyright reference China · Copyright Law, Article 23 US Copyright Office · foreign works Wikimedia Commons · film copy Chinese Film Classics · University of British Columbia

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Availability checked on September 11, 2026.

Photograph credit

Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

Ruan Lingyu — Chen Jiazhen (陈嘉震), 1935, 中国电影女明星照相集; Wikimedia Commons. · Public domain — PD-China and PD-1996
Jin Yan — Unknown photographer, 1930s; Wikimedia Commons. · Public domain — PD-China and PD-1996

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