...This chapter focuses on Kawashima Yoshiko's relationship with Yamaguchi Yoshiko, a famed singer-actress known as Li Xianglan in China and as Ri Kōran in Japan. Yoshiko first met Yamaguchi Yoshiko in 1937 in China. At the time, she was running a Chinese restaurant in Tianjin. She was older than...

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... films—including wartime interracial romances starring the Japanese-born Li Xianglan, who always played Chinese roles, a musical on the Russian community in Harbin, a comedy about a country bumpkin in the modern capital, a historical costume drama on the Opium War, as well as an animated “educational...