Her life has been portrayed in plays, popular movies (including the 1972 Hong Kong film "Chow Ken" (《秋瑾》)), and the documentary "Autumn Gem", written by Rae Chang and directed by Chang and Adam Tow. One film, simply entitled "Qiu Jin", was released in 1983 and directed by Xie Jin;. Another film, released in 2011, was entitled "Jing Xiong Nüxia Qiu Jin" (競雄女俠秋瑾), or "The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake", and directed by Herman Yau. She is briefly shown in the beginning of "1911", being led to the execution ground to be beheaded. The movie was directed by Jackie Chan and Zhang Li. Immediately after her death Chinese playwrights used the incident, "resulting in at least eight plays before the end of the Ch'ing dynasty."