Pu Shunqing

China’s first female scriptwriter for Cupid’s Puppets (1925), a Great Wall Film Company film co-directed by her husband

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Xie Caizhen

Caizhen Xie is regarded by several existing sources as the first female director of Chinese cinema who worked in China.

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Ida May Park

The 1916 Motion Picture News Studio Directory credits Los Angeles native Ida May Park with twelve years of stage experience as a “leading woman in support of well-known stars” and with screen experience at Pathé and the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, where she was then employed as a scenario writer.

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