Ruth St. Denis as well as Isadora Duncan toured Asia in the late '20s and were enthusiastically received as well as imitated.

Here is one example - from a 1931 silent "Two Stars", showing 2 numbers from an imaginary Charity Event.

Two hurdles remained uncrossed: first, a lack of ensemble dance style disappointed audiences (esp. in SE Asia) who wanted to see Japanese style chorus line dance. A la Takarazuka.

Second, and as a consequence.pioneering ballet and mod. dance schools for children provided no avenue to a career, and so by the late 1920s had to be abandoned - or rather reorganized as stage-dance troupes.

A third problem of course was that modern dance of this sort could never gain public financial support - and not just in China which in any case had no government at all.until the early 30s...