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UCSD Chinese Cinema Web-based Learning Center
Statistics -- Table Eight
Production Costs per Film in Republican China
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Year | Studio or City | Costs (yuan) | Film |
| Average | | | |
| 1925 | Shanghai | 4,000-6,000 | - |
| early 1930s | Shanghai (Lianhua) | 40,000 | - |
| 1939 | Shanghai | 30,000 | - |
| 1940 | Shanghai | 100,000 | - |
| 1942 | Shanghai | 300,000 | - |
| Jan. 1945 | Shanghai | 10 million | - |
| post-1945 | Shanghai | 30 million | - |
| Exceptional | | | |
| 1927 | Great Wall-Lily | 150,000 | Sex Trap, I-II |
| 1931 | Mingxing | 120,000 | Sing-song Girl Red Peony (sound) |
| 1931 | Huaguang | 50,000 | Reconciliation (sound) |
| 1931 | Tianyi | 200,000 | A Singer's Story (sound) |
| 1932 | Mingxing | 1.2 million | Fate in Tears and Laughter, I-VI (partial sound) |
Sources: Fu 1997: 72-7; Fu 1998: 91-9; ZDZ 1996a: xiii, 1378, 1418.
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