08. March 2022

The 1930s marked the first “Golden Period” of Chinese cinema and catapulted its key performers to superstardom. In 1933, the newspaper Star Daily conducted China's first public poll for the most popular movie stars with Hu Die “Butterfly” Wu (胡蝶) as the runaway winner with 21,334 votes, more than twice as many as the first runner-up Chen Yumei, and almost three times the votes her friend Ruan Lingyu (阮玲玉) received. Hu Die was crowned China's first "Movie Queen", but Ruan...

28. November 2019

In 1851, Ernst Christian Friedrich Schering opened a pharmacy in Berlin and in 1871 it was formally converted to a manufacturing plant and incorporated as Schering AG. Schering's business in China has a history of nearly 120 years. It’s first subsidiary was established in 1922 in Shanghai but Schering's products were sold in China through distributors as early as 1885. After closure of the company in 1945, Schering re-entered China in 1992 and at present has three locations established. Since...