The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple
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The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple, in 16 parts, is among the longest films ever produced and the longest major release,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". running 27 hours in total. The Mingxing Film Company production was released in 19 feature-length parts between 1928 and 1931. No copies have survived. The craze of the film series eventually led the Kuomintang to ban all wuxia films by the early 1930s because wuxia was thought to be inciting anarchy and rebellion.[4]
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- 1928 films
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- Lost Chinese films
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- Wuxia films
- Films directed by Zhang Shichuan
- Chinese black-and-white films
- 1928 lost films
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- 1930 lost films
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- Lost silent drama films
- Chinese silent drama films