The Chinese settled overseas, and the legend began in the Zhou and Qin dynasties, but the history is the Han Dynasty.
In 124 BC, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty opened up sea traffic with Southeast Asia, India and Sri Lanka in the south.
As a result of overseas trade, merchants and sailors traveled back and forth in Southeast Asia, and some of them settled there, becoming the first generation of overseas immigrants.
(In 1979, Lee Kuan Yew announced the opening of the Speak Mandarin Movement.) ）
In this generation, chinese people have left their homeland and moved overseas to live.
As of June 2019, about 55 million overseas Chinese were scattered around the world.
(Chinatown, South Africa.) ）
(Peruvian Chinese worker.) ）
The cultural roots of overseas Chinese are Chinese civilization, and culture is one of the four major elements of the country, and overseas Chinese are the seeds of Chinese civilization scattered all over the world.
Zhou Caiqin went to London to study at the age of 17, and her immigrant life is full of sorrows and joys, which is a legend.
(Zhou Caiqin.) ）
Zhou Caiqin's life experience has many firsts.
The first Chinese student at the Royal Academy of Drama in London, many years later, he also became the first Chinese academician of the academy;
The first Chinese "007 State Girl";
(Stills from "007's Thunder Valley")
The first Chinese singer to publish a record in the UK;
The first Asian actor to lead a stage play in London and New York.
First, a famous lady from a Peking Opera family.
Zhou Caiqin, born in Shanghai on November 30, 1936, the father of Zhou Xinfang is a famous Peking Opera master, the mother Qiu Lilin, is the third lady of the famous Qiu Tianbao Silver Building in Shanghai Beach, and Qiu Lilin's maternal grandfather is a Customs official of Scottish descent.
(Zhou Xinfang and Qiu Lilin.) ）
In the 1920s, Qiu Lilin was the chief celebrity in Shanghai's social circle, and her amazing beauty attracted countless suitors.
But at the age of 24, Qiu Lilin eloped with the famous Zhou Xinfang, and it was not until the two had three children that Zhou Xinfang officially divorced her ex-wife and the two held a wedding.
(Jollyn.) ）
Zhou Caiqin inherited her father's acting talent and her mother's beauty.
Qiu Lilin's deviance, independence, freedom and shrewdness also had a profound impact on Zhou Caiqin's personality.
(Zhou Caiqin)
After becoming famous, Zhou Caiqin said in an interview: "I don't like people to judge me as charming. This means obedience, why should a woman be meek and well-behaved? ”
In 1953, at the age of 17, Zhou Caiqin was admitted to the Royal Academy of Drama in London to study acting, becoming the first Chinese student in the academy.
(Zhou Caiqin in his youth)
While studying at the academy, 20-year-old Zhou Caiqin married her first husband and soon had her first child.
(Zhou Caiqin and her first husband)
But the husband hopes that Zhou Caiqin will teach her husband and be a full-time wife, which is definitely not Zhou Caiqin's wish, she has her own career and dreams to pursue, so the marriage ended quickly.
Second, Zhou Caiqin, who broke into the London film and television circle.
After graduating from college, Zhou Caiqin began to run dragon sets in British films.
On April 2, 1957, Zhou Caiqin's first film , The Breakthrough of the Yangtze River " , was released in the United Kingdom.
From 1957 to 1959, Zhou Caiqin participated in the films "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "Violent Playground", "Leofoo Inn", "The Treasure of Santa Teresa"
(In "The Six Blessings Inn", Bergman and Zhou Caiqin (far right), she plays Bergman's daughter.) ）
Participating in many movies has gradually made this oriental girl a little famous in the London showbiz circle.
But what really made Zhou Caiqin popular was the drama "The World of Su Si Huang"
In 1959, the 23-year-old Zhou Caiqin starred in the stage play "Su Si Huang's World", becoming the first Chinese lead actor to appear on the stage of London's West End in the United Kingdom.
This drama has been performed for three consecutive years, and the scene is full. Zhou Caiqin became popular in London.
Newspapers have reported on SuSi Huang one after another; there are leopards in the zoo named "celery picking"
(Zhou Caiqin and leopard.) ）
Zhou Caiqin was named the best dressed woman of the year, and under the influence of Su Si Huang, many British women wore cheongsam as fashionable.
(Zhou Caiqin's pomp and circumstance when she won the best dressed woman.) ）
After the divorce, Zhou Caiqin married peter, the director of the drama "Suss huang's world". But the two broke up in 1962, after which Zhou Caiqin gave up her pursuit of marriage and family.
After starring in the drama "Su Si Huang's World" became popular, Zhou Caiqin began to go to Hollywood to develop and participated in many movies.
On June 12, 1967, Zhou Caiqin's action film "007 Thunder Valley" was released in the United Kingdom, becoming the first Chinese "007 Bang Girl"
(007 Thunder Valley)
With the release of one film after another, Zhou Caiqin has also become a social celebrity in London; the boxer Ali is her guest, jonathan, the leader of the British Labour Party, is proud to be in love with her, and the famous lady Elizabeth has become a close friend with her...
(Zhou Caiqin in social occasions)
Fourth, Zhou Caiqin of Phoenix Nirvana.
In 1976, Zhou Caiqin committed suicide by swallowing sleeping pills when he was desperate due to bankruptcy of investment in real estate, and was sent to a mental hospital due to a mental breakdown after being rescued.
After that, Zhou Caiqin went to the United States, and the 40-year-old Zhou Caiqin worked as a typist, worked as a waiter in the restaurant of her younger brother Zhou Yinghua (an international Chinese restaurant giant), and also worked as a librarian.
(The last family photo of Zhou Xinfang's family)
(Zhou Yinghua and Zhou Caiqin have incompatible personalities.) ）
But in the end, after Zhou Caiqin was bitterly determined, she decided to return to school, go to Harvard for night classes, study Shakespeare's plays, and go to Tufts University for a master's degree.
After enriching herself, Zhou Caiqin returned to London, spent three years as an ascetic actor in the Cambridge Drama Club, and played the heroine in "Orestea" and "The Red Letter", and shined on the stage again
(Zhou Caiqin, who is wearing makeup behind the stage.) ）
(Zhou Caiqin starred in a stage play.) ）
Fifth, Zhou Caiqin, who promotes cultural exchanges between the East and the West.
In 1981, invited by Cao Yu and Jinshan, Zhou Caiqin, who missed her hometown, became one of the first "overseas experts" to return to China to teach after the reform and opening up.
In 1988, Zhou Caiqin's English autobiography "Daughter of Shanghai" was published in the United Kingdom and the United States.
(Stills from 1993's "Happy Luck Club.") ）
Zhou Caiqin has participated in a large number of Chinese films and TV dramas filmed in the mainland.
(Jia Mu in the new version of "Dream of the Red Chamber")
In 2001, Zhou Caiqin was awarded the American Emmy Award for Lifetime Achievement (the highest award in the American television industry). ）
(Li, who played Jay Chou's grandmother in "Amazing Demon Gang 2")
On March 18, 2007, the documentary "Hollywood Chinese" was released in the United States.
On July 2, 2019, the documentary "Daughter of Shanghai", which tells his personal experience, was released in China.
(Poster of "Daughter of Shanghai")
Zhou Caiqin was born in 1936, and by 2020, it will be 84 years; Zhou Caiqin has been flying around from Shanghai, Hong Kong, London, the United States, Beijing, and Shanghai all her life.
In the vicissitudes of the 84 years, in the tide of the times, Zhou Caiqin tried hard to master the boat of her own destiny.
Whether it is good times or bad times, Zhou Caiqin has always remembered a sentence that her father Zhou Xinfang warned herself: "Always remember that you are a Chinese"
(Zhou Xinfang and children)
For more than 60 years, Zhou Caiqin has never forgotten the scene of parting with her father: her father, who has never liked to say much, gave her a hand-copied script of "Wen Tianxiang" and warned her, "You must always remember that you are a Chinese." ”
This was her father's last meeting with her, and the last thing his father said to her.
Yes, no matter how far away the pot is, no matter how long it is, the Chinese people all flow the blood of the Chinese nation, and their culture is inextricably linked to the Chinese civilization.
The Chinese are the seeds of Chinese civilization scattered all over the world, and more or less emit the light of Chinese civilization.
(Zhou Caiqin on the Oscar red carpet.) ）
Zhou Caiqin is one of the best.
She uses the tenacity and persistence of Chinese women to bloom beauty in a foreign land.
Through "Daughter of Shanghai", in the exchange and integration of Chinese and Western cultures, Zhou Caiqin undoubtedly used her life's practice to show the ordinariness and greatness of a Chinese woman.