Siqin Gaowa

A cross-generational look at how denizens of China’s largest city deal with romance and commitment.

Zhula lives with her only son in the grasslands. One day, a man asks her to hire him. Zhula hires him but he doesn’t want to tell his background.

If money can’t buy happiness, can it at least buy control over others? Xiang is hard-working, running a small sesame oil business. Her ...

A widow by the name of Lee Jiu Jin, willingly sold herself to a farway outskirts village without knowing that she is to be shared by 7 men, so as ...