Chinese Language Movies Adapted From Foreign Literary Works

     Several earlier posts in this space have discussed Chinese fiction films which were based on foreign (i.e. non-Chinese) literary sources.  This stoked my curiosity about what other foreign sources Chinese filmmakers have adapted for the screen.  But in gathering the information I soon came to realize I was proving the wisdom of the old aphorism concerning the unforeseen consequences of swamp-draining.  So I have decided to publish the findings to date, covering the first known adaptation in 1920 through the decade of the 1940s.  This page is archived under Research Aids, and will be updated occasionally, eventually bringing it up to date and including Chinese-language films produced in Hong Kong and Taiwan as well as the mainland.  (There are no Taiwan productions in the list so far.)  Each future update will be announced here as a post.