Xu Caigen

Yingzi is a young, impressionable girl living on the southern side of Beijing in the late 1920s. Encountering people in the city, she tries to understand how people are really like inside through her own eyes.

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

Chronicles the fortunes of two actresses in pre-revolutionary China, who are separated by money and politics.

San Mao joins the army and experiences a tough, dangerous, and funny life.