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Kwan Man-ching
Chinese film director (1896–1995)
In this Chinese name, the family name is Kwan.
Kwan Man-ching[a] (30 September 1896 – 17 June 1995), better known in the United States as Moon Kwan, was a Chinese film director.
Born in Kaiping County, Guangdong, Kwan travelled to San Francisco after studying English in Hong Kong. Unable to finish his studies, he moved to Hollywood in the mid-1910s. Through the newspaper editor Harry Carr, he was introduced to the director D.
W. Griffith and hired as a technical consultant for Broken Blossoms (1919). Through 1920, Kwan provided consulting on Chinese subjects for Hollywood filmmakers, simultaneously publishing original and translated poetry.
Film kwan kong biography
Kwan returned to China in 1921, moving to Hong Kong after finding little success in Shanghai. Working first for Minxin and later for the United Photoplay Service, he held a variety of roles and frequently travelled to the United States.
During one 1933 trip,