Wan Brothers

The Wan brothers, Laiming and his twin Guchan, born in Nanjing in 1900, and their younger brothers Chaochen and Dihuan, discovered American animated cartoons in Shanghai and taught themselves the craft, still unknown in China. In 1919 Laiming and Guchan joined the art department of the Commercial Press and in 1922 made a short animated advertisement, then short films, several of them anti-Japanese propaganda. After the war, Laiming and Guchan moved to Hong Kong, and Chaochen went to study in the United States; in 1954 three of them returned to work at the Shanghai animation studio.

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• CinemaPrincess Iron Fan鐵扇公主Wan Brothers · 1941Cinema