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Uncovering Values in "Dwelling Narrowness"

Uncovering Values in "Dwelling Narrowness"

Alice Poon
Jan 22, 2010
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The story is generally about a love affair between a middle-aged corrupt official and a young and pretty office clerk that ends in tragedy, intertwined with the life struggles of their relatives and others in a dynamic metropolis that’s growing at lightening speed and which in the film is known as Jiangzhou (江州), a fictionalized alias for Shanghai. The …

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