Legacy
In 1992, Hong Kong director Stanley Kwan made a movie about her life, Center Stage, starring Maggie Cheung as Ruan Lingyu. Cheung won the Berlin Film Festival Best Actress for this role.
In 2005, Jacklyn Wu Chien-lien played Ruan in a 30-episode Mainland TV serial on Ruan's life.. That same year a biography, "Ruan Ling-Yu: The goddess of Shanghai" by Richard J. Meyer was released by the University Press of Hong Kong.
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