No Regrets About Youth
Traditional Chinese青春
Simplified Chinese青春
Hanyu PinyinQīngchūn Wú Huǐ
Directed byZhou 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

  • Lin, Xiaoping. Children of Marx and Coca-Cola: Chinese Avant-Garde Art and Independent Cinema. University of Hawaii Press, 2010. ISBN 0824833368, 9780824833367.
  1. 1 2 Lin, Xiaoping, p. 27.


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