100 Films to Watch to Help You Understand China - The Mao Years

The life-story of Wu Xun, a beggar in the Qing dynasty who set up free schools for poor children.

A guerrilla group around Li Xiangyang are ambushed by the Japanese invasion army during the War of Resistance.

The story focuses on three brothers and how they respond to the expectation that they will each marry women whom their grandfather has selected for them.

People's dignity and life are measlier than paper in China's dark years in the first half of 20th century. Smart student Lin learns knowledge from a college professor and a communist man, then runs on to an extraordinary revolutionary way.

Ah Peng meets a girl named Jinhua at a festival and they agree to meet the next year. One year later, he searches for her and finds other girls named Jinhua, leading to a series of misunderstanding.

In 1930s, Wu Qionghua was a housemaid of Nan-ba-tian, a cruel warlord of a village in Hainan Island, China. Often abused by her master, Qionghua was finally rescued by Hong Changqing, leader of the Red Detachment of Women - a troop of women soldiers. She joined the troop and became the Detachment leader after the death of Hong. They captivated and executed the warlord and liberated Qionghua's home village.

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

Set in the "cultural revolution" period of China, a college of labor is set up in a mountain area of Jiangxi Province. Long Guozheng, a veteran cadre of Chinese People's Anti-Japanese Military and Political College, is sent to the new college as secretary and headmaster. He has to try his best to lead the college on the right track.

The lives of a Beijing family throughout the 1950s and 1960s, as they experience the impact of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.

Beijing, 1970s. Now that the CR has driven most adults to the provinces, 14-year-old Monkey and his pals have free reign over the city. They hang around, get up to no good, and discover that unsolvable mystery referred to as "girls."