The company, which also produced a magazine to promote its films, closed after the January 28 incident destroyed its studios.

[2] In 1924, their brother Zhang Huichong had established the Lianhe Film Company;[3] he later helped with several Huaju productions.

[14] In 1928, following the success of the Mingxing Film Company's The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple, Huaju made Hero in Fire.

[1] Aside from coverage of the company's productions, the magazine published works of poetry and essays on topics ranging from screenwriting to the philosophy of film.

These essays, while making references to Western thinkers such as Lord Byron, Henrik Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, advocated a view that cinema should serve the needs of the Republic of China.

[1] The majority of the films produced by Huaju were in the wuxia genre,[1] with elements of adventure and detective fiction.

[6] Several of the films featured leading lady Wu Suxin portraying characters who passed as men, and in this capacity establishing a partnership with a male warrior while also drawing a woman's romantic affections.