Reframing the Chinese Cultural Revolution in Diaspora: Joan Chen's The Sent-Down Girl

From: Literature/Film Quarterly | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Lan, Feng | Copyright information

After the remarkable success of her directorial debut Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (Whispering Steppes, 1998), Joan Chen was once asked why she chose to make a film set in the 1966-1976 Chinese Cultural Revolution. Chen answered, "It was a story about my generation, about a whole ten years of our lives, and nobody really told it" (Caswell). Adapted from a novella by the Chinese diaspora woman writer Geling Yan, Chen's film narrates the tragic life of Xiu Xiu, a teenage girl who, like millions ...

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