''No Regrets About Youth'' is a 1992 film by
Zhou Xiaowen
Zhou Xiaowen (; born 1954 in Beijing) is a Chinese filmmaker. He graduated from the Cinematography Department of the Beijing Film Academy in 1975 and is part of the so-called Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers.Zhang, Yingjin & Xiao, Zhiwe ...
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The film explores the redevelopment of
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in the 1990s. In the film a bulldozer operator destroys a ''siheyuan'' courtyard house that is the residence of his girlfriend. Xiaoping Lin, author of ''Children of Marx and Coca-Cola: Chinese Avant-Garde Art and Independent Cinema'', wrote that the scene compares the destruction of the house to a rape of a woman.
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References
* Lin, Xiaoping. '' Children of Marx and Coca-Cola: Chinese Avant-Garde Art and Independent Cinema''. University of Hawaii Press
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, 2010. , 9780824833367.
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1992 films
Chinese drama films
Films directed by Zhou Xiaowen
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