Asian Descent Archives - Page 31 of 40

Ruler and military leader of Jhansi who fought British imperialism

Early Chinese film producer, editor and director

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

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

Early Chinese film costume designer, producer, writer and actor

Pearl Ing, or Yin Mingzhu, was the first woman to play the leading role in a film made in Shanghai, the earliest center of Chinese filmmaking.

Early Chinese-American filmmaker

Shamaness, matriarch and warrior A Nong was a prominent figure among the Zhuang and Nùng people in the 11th century.

Indian women’s rights activist and suffragist

Indian lawyer, women’s rights activist and the first Indian woman barrister, lawyer at the Bombay High Court and Sheriff of Mumbai