Hu Ping

Hu Ping (胡萍) (1910-?) was a Chinese actress, screenwriter and filmmaker from Hunan, China, born in Changsha.

She started acting in Shanghai, in the theater industry and was a household name in Shanghai in the 1930s.

She joined the Friends Film Company in 1931.

Her movies included Love and Life (恋爱与生命), Awkward Tragedy (姊姊的悲剧), The Hero of the Sea (海上英雄), The History of the Greenwood (绿林艳史) and The Night Half Song (夜半歌声).

Her fate is unknown.

She transferred into Xihua in 1936.

She went to Hong Kong after the Japanese invasion in 1937, but was unable to work.

She found love and lived as a celebrity, "doing nothing every day, enjoying a leisurely life, going out to the karaoke, ballroom, cafe, singing, dancing."

After the Japanese took Hong Kong in 1941, she fled to Chongqing.

There was a rumor that she reluctantly married the commander of the Kuomintang troops in the Yunnan, a second wife, and was beaten and locked up after trying to flee, possibly committing suicide.

Hu Ping was working in a Changsha coffee shop when she was discovered by Chinese playwright Tian Han.

Han, already making a living as a playwright, would later become known nationally as the writer of China's national anthem.

Han introduced her into the world of acting, first on the stage in plays, and later into movie acting.

He took her to the Southern Drama Club in Shanghai where she got experience acting in plays such as Street Man and Scrambled Clock.