No Regrets About Youth

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No Regrets About Youth
Traditional Chinese 青春
Simplified Chinese 青春
Hanyu Pinyin Qīngchūn Wú Huǐ
Directed by Zhou Xiaowen
Starring

No Regrets About Youth is a 1992 film by Zhou Xiaowen. [1]

The film explores the redevelopment of Beijing 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. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Lin, Xiaoping, p. 27.