Siqin Gaowa

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."

Follows a Red Army company from training, through combat in the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979, and the aftermath of war, focusing on the anger created by nepotism among the Party elite.

Xiangzi heads to the big city to enjoy the freedom of being a rickshaw boy. In Beijing, a better life eludes the boy from the countryside, and his dream turns into a desperate nightmare. He is humiliated and struggles to feed hims...

Coral, a Hong Kong woman tortured by city life, returns to her hometown to visit her two old friends. They all find that some precious things in life that disappear through the years can never be recovered.

At a small town in the west of China in 1935, the county magistrate's funny accent raised a series of misguided affairs, deduced a bizarre and absurd story with one and another climaxes.