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It describes that textile workers were brutally oppressed and exploited by capitalists and Kuomintang reactionaries in the old society. After liberation, they raised their class consciousness, showed their labor enthusiasm in labor competition, and created wealth for the country. At the same time criticize conservative and backward thinking and bureaucracy.
Taking place during the period of the Three Kingdoms, 220 A.D., a story about the relationship between the emperor Cao Pi, his first wife Zhen, and his brother Cao Zhi. Zhen falls for Cao Zhi, and upon discovering this disloyalty, Cao Pi orders the execution of Zhen, and the banishment of his brother Cao Zhi.
During the Ming dynasty, a poor worker family, working day and night, is still unable to pay its taxes.
Night Inn (Chinese: 夜店; pinyin: Yè Diǎn) is a Chinese black-and-white film released in 1947, directed by Huang Zuolin and starring the popular Shanghai singer Zhou Xuan. The film is based on the Chinese theatrical adaptation of Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths by playwright Ke Ling. The play and the film were both banned in China during the Cultural Revolution but were popular in the post-Mao period.
In old Shanghai, two sisters, a prostitute and a singer, try to escape from the local scoundrels with the help of a trumpet player and a newspaper seller.
The young poet Xin Baihe flees Shanghai with his friend, Liang. Liang soon joins the resistance against the Japanese invaders, but Xin chooses to pursue a relationship with a glamorous and westernized widow in Qingdao. After hearing that Liang has been killed, Xin has a change of heart and rushes to join the war effort.