The 1961 Feature Film That Continues To Motivate Chinese Women – OpEd

By Tings Chak*

“Are you a proletarian?” asks the brigade commander. Receiving no response, she clarifies her question: “Do you own land?”

Wu Qionghua, a young woman who is dressed in red linen and has a long-plaited braid, defiantly responds, “I am a slave girl. I own nothing.” Qionghua was orphaned and enslaved...