从平均主义盛行到悬殊的贫富差距，中国仅用了短短的十几年时间。面对贫穷，中国的传统文化游刃有余，然而面对财富，却捉襟见肘。在公平与正义的旗帜下，人们有充分的理由追问：财富是如何集中在素质低下者和品质恶劣者手中的，又对社会发展造成了什么样的影响？ 中国的现代化之路当然不会一帆风顺。现在的问题是中国将如何通过深化改革，跨越诸如腐败、软政权化、分利集团化、地方恶势力以及黑色经济等已经形成、或正在形成的陷阱。

《中国古代史》(新版)(上)内容简介：为了给大学文科提供一部比较适用的中国古代史教材，我们努力运用马列主义、毛泽东思想，掌握充实而可靠的历史资料，力图正确反映中国古代史的真实面貌，揭示出中国历史的发展规律。

The film sketches the lives and tribulations of some of those kids the college girl on summer break, the boys from the neighbouring province who only want to do hip-hop and through them we get a real glimpse of what makes Shanghai today a promising big city.

文革期间，戴眼镜的小男孩天奔（Liang Yi Guo 饰）因为听了一张周璇的黑角唱片，而被冠以“散播黄色歌曲”的罪名被发配万寿山接受改造。这里云集了来自四面八方的“牛鬼蛇神”，天奔小小年纪就要遵照管教的命令早晚高唱请愿歌，与其他政治犯一起背粪桶、锄地、劈柴、挑水、做饭，干这一切艰苦而无望的活计。人们在这里被打回原始的状态，生存成了最基本的诉求。在他们当中，似乎只有那个始终含笑不语的哑巴道士处之泰然，然而在这个疯狂的年代里，没有一个人能够超然世外…… 本片荣获1989年洛迦诺国际电影节特别提及、1989年法国让•维果奖最佳影片奖。

2006 film by Nick Broomfield

Shot in 1995, but banned until 2004, this is an adaptation of Su Tong's novel about a shrewd amoral country boy who arrives in the big city in the 1930s and works at a rice emporium.. Initially pushed around, he learns the ropes in his new environment quickly, eventually climbing to the position of boss by marrying the daughter of the house.

Sitian, a Chinese American conductor, returns to China to give a concert and to find her three siblings again, after having been separated from them for years after the death of their parents.