Shanghai family prototype

The archetypes of Shanghai families include, Lang and others.

The screenwriter of "Shanghai Family" mentioned that in the early 1980s, in order to accumulate materials, she interviewed Tang Tiyin, a famous Shanghai businesswoman (calling her Jin Bi Tang), and later she died.

In the cotton spinning industry, there is a Xu Xiuying, who is the female boss of Fuli Silk Store (originally on Nanjing West Road). She died, too. Huang Yun learned many of her stories and habits through businessmen and workers in the silk industry. In the play, if a man happens to be a clerk in a company run by an Englishman, what does he learn from her story?

And A Lang Julie, who was a member of the Municipal Federation of Industry and Commerce and used to run a sock factory. She looks as simple as a peasant woman. She told Huang Yun in detail about her life experience, the process of setting up a factory, management, labor relations and distribution methods.

Huang Yun feels that her experience is just like Vera's workshop in the novel What to Do by Russian writer Chernyshevski, which is very idealistic, but she has no education and doesn't know a few Chinese characters, probably because the farmer's daughter is kind. During the Anti-Japanese War, her factory couldn't do any more, so she followed the workers carrying socks up and down the street. This detail was also used by Huang Yun in the play.