# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zhang-shichuan
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:40:54.296Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zhang-shichuan"
name: "Zhang Shichuan"
slug: "zhang-shichuan"
description: "Zhang Shichuan, also credited as S. C. Chang, was a Chinese entrepreneur, film director, and film producer, who is considered a founding father of Chinese cinema. He and Zheng Zhengqiu made the first Chinese feature film, The Difficult Couple, in 1913, and cofounded the Mingxing (Star) Film Company in 1922, which became the largest film production company in China under Zhang's leadership."
tagline: "Founding father of Chinese cinema (1890-1954)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zhang_Shichuan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1890-01-01"
deathDate: "1954-07-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.88607066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0955405/"
    handle:    "nm0955405"
sources:
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    title: "张石川"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "زهانج شيتشوان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Zhang Shichuan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Shichuan"
    title: "Zhang Shichuan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Shichuan"
    title: "Zhang Shichuan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Shichuan"
    title: "Zhang Shichuan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Shichuan"
    title: "Zhang Shichuan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Csang_Si-csuan"
    title: "Csang Si-csuan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Shichuan"
    title: "Zhang Shichuan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Shichuan"
    title: "Zhang Shichuan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Zhang Shichuan"
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  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Shichuan"
    title: "Zhang Shichuan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A8%D0%B8%D1%87%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C"
    title: "Чжан Шичуань"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Shichuan"
    title: "Zhang Shichuan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q197283"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1158075"
    title: "Shichuan Zhang"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump