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UCSD Chinese Cinema Web-based Learning Center
Statistics -- Table Six
Sample Ticket Prices in Late Qing and Republican China
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Year(s) | Theatre(s) | Type of film | Prices (yuan) |
| 1897 | Tianhua Teahouse | Edison movies | 0.1-0.5 |
| 1910s-20s | YMCA | domestic comic shorts | 0.1 |
| Great World | midnight show | 0.1-0.2 |
| early 1920s | Embassy | foreign & domestic | 1-3 |
| Pavillion, Beijing | foreign | up to 2 |
| Zhenguang, Beijing | weekend foreign matinee at student discount | 0.1 |
| 1932 | first-run venues like Capitol, Lanxin, Majestic | foreign sound | 1-2 |
| first-run venues like Cathay, Carlton, Grand, Strand | foreign & domestic | 0.6 |
| second-run venues like Paris, Iris, Odeon, Peking, Palace, Embassy, Apollo, Wiley | foreign & domestic | 0.4 |
| second-run venues like Star, Guanghua, New Palace | foreign & domestic | 0.3 |
| third-run venues like Empire, Carter, China, Hongkew | foreign & domestic | 0.2 |
| others like Zhabei | unknown | 0.1 |
| 1936 | cheapest to highest | foreign & domestic | 0.2-2 |
| 1940 | first-run venues | foreign & domestic | 3.2 |
| 1941 | average venues, Manchuria | Japanese & domestic | 0.2-1.5 |
| teahouse-type venues, Beijing | domestic silent | 0.1-0.2 |
| 1942 | first-run venues | Japanese & domestic | 8 |
| 1945 | first-run venues | domestic | 60 |
| 1948 | cheapest to highest | foreign & domestic | 0.2-1.2 million |
* All theatres in Shanghai unless otherwise indicated.
Sources: Y. Ding 1998: 105-24; Fu 1997: 72-7; Fu 1998: 91-9; Hou 1996: 199-218; Leyda 1972:
2-3; Manzhou zazhi she, March-April 1941; ZDZ 1996a: 191-8, 1496, 1509, 1569.
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