Shanghai Dreams

Shanghai Dreams simplified Chinese traditional Chinese pinyin Qng hng is a 2005 Chinese film directed by Wang Xiaoshuai and starring Gao Yuanyuan, Li Bin, Tang Yang, Wang Xiaoyang, and Yao Anlian. The film was produced by Stellar Megamedia, Debo Films Ltd. and Kingwood Ltd.

The film is set in the early 1980s and follows a Shanghai family who had gone to work in a factory in Guizhou as part of the Third Front, intended as an industrial base if China were invaded. The father, obsessed with returning to Shanghai for a better life for his family, attempts to prevent a romance between his daughter and a local worker. The film is partly autobiographical in nature, as Wangs family was also sent to Guizhou as a child.Shanghai Dreams represents the first time a director has approached the subject of the Third Line of Defense and its consequences. This is in no small part due to the director, Wang Xiaoshuais own upbringing. Like the Wu family, the Wang family was also originally from Shanghai and who moved to Guiyang due to the need to create an industrial third line of defense. This third line of defense was set away from cities and the seacoast, in order to protect Chinas industrial capability in case of a war against the Soviet Union. With the opening up of China in the 1980s, however, many of these urban exiles were given the opportunity to return home to the cities, even as their families had already laid down roots in their new homes. Wang has stated that he set the story in the 1980s in that it represented an era of transition, wherein the Cultural Revolution had ended, but much of the old ways were still ingrained in society. ........

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