Liang Saizhen

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Liang Saizhen (梁賽珍), also romanised as Liang Sa-tsen, was a Chinese film actress and dancing girl active in the 1920s and 1930s. She appeared in over 20 films in Shanghai, the vast majority of them silent films. After the Second Sino-Japanese War began in 1937, she fled to British Malaya, and probably died in Singapore.

Liang Saizhen, Liang Saizhu, and Liang Saishan on the cover of The Young Companion, November 1934.

Filmography

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Year English title Original title Role Notes
1926 The Deadly Sins 孽海驚濤 Lost
1927 The Lustrous Pearl 夜明珠 Chang Aye Chien
Love Slave 情奴 Lost
1928 Spellbound 迷魂陣 Lost
A Traveller's Tale 海外奇緣 Lost
The Tiger and a Maid 猛虎劫美記 Lost
The Flying Man 航空大俠 Lost
1929 The Seashore Hero 海濱豪俠 Lost
Righteousness and Love 義海情天 Lost
The Traitor 綠林叛徒 Lost
The Romantic Heroine 浪漫女英雄 Lost
1930 The Burning of the Seven-Star Tower 火燒七星樓 Lost
The Bitterness of a Marriage 百劫鴛鴦 Lost
1931 The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple 火燒紅蓮寺 Films 16–18 in series
An Amorous History of the Silver Screen 銀幕艷史 Actress
Three Darts 三箭之愛 Lost
Join the Army for My Wife 為妻從軍 Lost
The Murderess 殺人的小姐 Lost
Tough Youngsters 鐵血青年 Lost
Who's the Hero? 誰是英雄 Lost
In the Old Peking 舊時京華 Lost
The Tai Chi Dart 太極鏢 Lost
1932 Revival of National Spirit 國魂的復活 Lost
My Lovely Enemy 可愛的仇敵 Lost
1934 Madame Mai 麥夫人 Lost
Give Back My Home 還我山河 Lost
Rebirth 再生 Lost
1935 The Evil Beauty 蛇蠍美人 Lost
Four Sisters 四姊妹 Lost

Personal life

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Her younger sisters Liang Saizhu (梁賽珠), Liang Saishan (梁賽珊), and Liang Saihu (梁賽瑚) also acted in some films. Liang Saizhu appeared in The Seashore Hero (1929), Madame Mai (1934), and Four Sisters (1935), as well as some films after 1935. Liang Saishan only appeared in Madame Mai and Four Sisters, and Liang Saihu only appeared in Four Sisters, which starred the four of them together.The Liang family four sisters raised money for the Anti-Japanese War and had initiated many fundraising activities.

References

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  • Field, Andrew David (2010). Shanghai's Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919-1954. The Chinese University Press. pp. 124–128. ISBN 978-962-996-373-6.