The lives of three sisters who all married among the highest rank of officials in the Republic of China (1911-1949)
Four Chinese women students in the USA are stranded when the Communists take over Shanghai in 1948
April 1949, People's Liberation Army under Mao Zedong and Zhu De take Nanjing & the KMT regime falls; Chiang Kai-Shek flees to Taiwan October 1949
1949, British warship Amethyst blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries on the Yangtse River
Country girl & a young teacher fall in love during the 1958 Anti-Rightist Movement reaction against the Hundred Flowers Campaign
A barely Christian upper-class woman survives the anti-religious excesses of communism in China
A devoted couple are forced to separate when the husband is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution
A married couple experience the effects of the Communist victory, the Great Leap Forward and The Cultural Revolution
In the Cultural Revolution, teen-aged girl sent to a remote area of China and abandoned
Two young men sent for re-education in the Cultural Revolution fall in love with the same mountain woman
Young people roam the streets because the Cultural Revolution takes up most of their parents' time
During the Cultural Revolution, timber rafters try to rescue a former District Director from a labor camp
The Cultural Revolution makes love very difficult for a young couple
Life of Canadian Doctor Norman Bethune who became a hero in China during Mao Tse-Tung's rise to power.
The Qing Dynasty falls to nationalists, and the emperor later becomes a pawn in Japanese-controlled Manchuria directed by Bertolucci.
A rural Communist confronts post-Deng modernization efforts in contemporary China.