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Rhapsody of Happiness is a film of genre Drama directed by Chen Liting with Zhao Dan
Rhapsody of Happiness (1946)
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Rhapsody of Happiness () is a Chinese film directed by Chen Liting and written by Chen Baichen. Made during the Republican era, it was produced by the state-owned China Film No. 2 Studio based in Shanghai. The film was released in late 1947, following the success of Chen Liting's first film Far Away Love.
^ Yeh, Wen-Hsin (2000). Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond. University of California Press. pp. 369–370. ISBN 9780520222182.
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