In a grimy provincial industrial city, a talented but unattractive schoolteacher dreams of an operatic career.

The story takes place in wartime Guangzhou before the country’s liberation by the Communist Party of China in 1949. A young woman named Qiu Xi is a...

In the late 1930s, the Japanese army occupies Shanghai. Barber Lu Ping kills a Japanese officer by accident and then escapes from Shanghai to the...

The tale of one man who fought against the tyranny of a ruler and led his people in battle in the ultimate sacrifice for his country.