Movies: Li Zhiyu

A Chinese prostitute weds, studies painting, and becomes a renowned artist and professor in Paris....

Biopic of Qiu Jin (1877-1907), early Chinese womens’ liberationist and martyred revolutionary....

During the Cultural Revolution a powerless newspaper writer struggles with his conscience at the pervasive dishonesty and immorality from the top on down. The ethical and professional conflicts eventually threaten both his work and family relationshi...

At the tail end of the Cultural Revolution, Qiu Shi, a poet who has been in prison for six years, is transferred elsewhere by boat under the guard of two officers. During transit, he meets a series of passengers, who have also faced hardships in rece...

A portrait of a woman, more intelligent and more ambitious than her husband, who must fight to break with village morality by choosing to have an abortion....

Zi Hen, who is being raised in a strict orphanage, is suddenly adopted by the beautiful and wealthy Luo Ban-di, who murdered her own husband....

In the snowy countryside of northern China, Wen receives a telegram informing her that her father is dead. She travels to the city and finds he was branded a reactionary in the midst of the Cultural Revolution. She is distraught, and on the way home,...

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