A Research of Zheng Yongzhi’s Management Thought for China Motion Picture Corporation

Abstract

Using the historical analysis method, with the primary historical data, supplemented by relevant research results and interviews with his descendants, this paper analyses the management activities and thoughts of Zheng Yongzhi, the most internationally renowned director of the Chinese film studios during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, in relation to the management of the China Motion Picture Corporation (CMPC) . During the War ofResistance Against Japan, Chinese films were diverse and complex, and the main body of the industry was the government-run film organisations, which were the mainstay and dominant force of wartime Chinese films. China Motion Picture Corporation occupied the central position of the government-run film institutions at that time due to its largest scale, the largest number of productions, and the superior quality of its works, and its achievements of the era could not be separatedfrom the management ingenuity of the director Zheng Yongzhi. Zheng Yongzhi regarded the construction of China’s film industry as his personal ideal pursuit, and in the midst of the war and lack of materials, he established and operated China Motion Picture Corporation with a set of clear and perfect film management concepts, and fought on the front line of anti-Japanese literature and art, making great contributions to the development of early Chinesefilms and dramas.