LI LILI- RCA VICTOR OF CHINA - SHANGHAI - VICTOR 54311- RARE- WITH INSERT- HEAR

$

200

Li Lili on a 78 RPM of the Victor Records label (made in Shanghai) in VG++ condition. The 78 RPM record plays with excellent fidelity on both sides. The 78 RPM record shows full gloss, with a mostly clean playing surface. The original insert is included with this record. It shows a picture of Li Lili, with some writing in Chinese. (The insert is partially torn, and please see the scans. Please listen to the steaming audio of this actual record on the eCommerce auction player.

Li was born Qian Zhenzhen in Beijing, 1915. She was adopted by Li Jinhui, the conductor of the China National Song & Dance Troupe, now considered the Father of Chinese popular music. She is listed as one of the ten most important women of old Shanghai. She was known as "Sweet Sister" and starred in eight films for the Linhua Film Company. After World War II, she travelled to the United States, and studied acting at the Catholic University in Washington DC. She returned to China in 1955, suffered persecution during Mao's Cultural Revolution. She died in 2005 at the age of 90, last of China's great silent screen actresses.  

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There is a complete audio stream of at least one side of each record on the listing page. Occasionally the audio stream "times out" overseas, limiting the sound, to a brief "clip". If this happens, please email or message me, and I will try to make a correction. Here is my grading system:

NM- = record appears mostly new and uplayed

VG++ = record looks great, may be a few light paper scuffs, plays like new.

VG+ = fairly nice copy, may be a few light marks, occasional tick or pop, but mostly clean sound.

VG = wear, scuffing, light scratches, ticks and pops, but a very playable copy.

VG- many scuffs or groove wear, plays with some noise, but still listenable.

G+ = a playable copy but very very worn, plays with lots of noise

G through G- = wall hanger