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- Dingjunshan was the first Chinese film ever made. The content was a sung representation of Battle of Mount Dingjun.
- The Japanese entered China in 1900 as part of the Eight-Nation Alliance which brought 20,000 armed troops to quell the Boxer Rebellion, and captured Beijing on August 14 of that year; an "orgy" of looting, rape, and slaughter reportedly ensued, perpetrated by troops of all nations, with the Japanese proving particularly adept at the summary decapitation of any and all suspected of being Boxers. As in the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-5, Japan's participation in the 1900 invasion was celebrated in numerous woodblock prints, as well as lithographs and other emergent media including film, which was also used to capture a series of brutal beheadings. This continued with the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5, which stemmed largely from a massive influx of Russian troops in 1900, ostensibly as a defence against the Boxers. but also as an occupation of territory, Many decapitation films were projected in medical departments of Tokyo universities, as physiological studies.
- Feature length film consisting of recordings of French consul Auguste François during his time as consul in southern China from 1896 until 1904. The well documented series of shorts is thought to be the earliest depiction of China in film.