The film follows the rise and fall of a family in Shanghai. Once wealthy and capitalist, the family unraveled during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s. Their home, once a French concession mansion, was converted into a multi-family dwelling.
Women’s Story was the first work to garner international acclaim for Peng Xiaolian. It is about three women living in China’s northern countryside and straightforwardly raises the issue of gender inequality hidden in a communist society.
When a second-in-a-second schoolboy student, was transferred to Shichuan in the north of the Yangtze River. He was not hopeful for his life. He unexpectedly discovered that the female college student on campus was the elder sister Anna who had once loved him and wanted to be in the other school....
