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I'm Xiao Hong

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My real name is Zhang Naiying

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I was born on June 1st, 1911

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It was the day of the Dragon Boat Festival

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My family were land-owners
in Hulan County, Manchuria

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At 11 am on January 22nd, 1942...

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...I died

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I was in a makeshift hospital

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in Hong Kong

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I was thirty-one

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<i>"Blossoms appeared
in our back garden in May"</i>

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<i>"Then the fruits In June"</i>

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<i>"Cucumbers, eggplants,
corns, kidney beans..."</i>

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<i>"...watermelons, tomatoes..."</i>

15
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<i>"...and pumpkins with creeping vines"</i>

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<i>"But the mood in our place was desolate"</i>

17
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How old were you when your mother died?

18
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Eight

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I was only seven months when my mother died

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My father beat her

21
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So she took opium to die

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I heard that when she died,

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she was only 19 or 21

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I don't know what she looked like

25
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There were no pictures

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<i>"I'll probably never understand</i>

27
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<i>people like my father"</i>

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<i>"To servants, to his own children"</i>

29
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<i>"and to my grandfather. ..</i> ”

30
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<i>"...he was mean and aloof"</i>

31
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<i>"It was my grandfather who taught me that"</i>

32
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<i>"life includes love and warmth..."</i>

33
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<i>"...as well as coldness and hatred"</i>

34
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Hurry and grow up!

35
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Things will be fine when you're grown up

36
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<i>"I ran away from my father's house
when I was 20"</i>

37
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<i>"Ever since then, my life has drifted"</i>

38
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<i>"I've grown up, but things are not fine"</i>

39
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"ZHANG XIUKE Xiao Hong's brother"

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When my sister was
about to finish high school...

41
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...father arranged

42
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a marriage for her

43
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My sister resisted

44
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She was in love with our cousin, Lu Zheshun

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And he was already married

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<i>When they ran away to Peking together...</i>

47
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<i>...Lu Zheshun was pressured by his family</i>

48
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<i>and soon abandoned her</i>

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<i>My elopement</i>

50
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<i>made me notorious throughout the county</i>

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<i>Our family felt disgraced</i>

52
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<i>I got back from Peking
in the middle of the night</i>

53
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<i>My father responded by ordering
the whole household...</i>

54
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<i>...to move to our place in the countryside</i>

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Xiao Hong was locked up for ten months

56
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Then she fled to Harbin

57
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"SHU QUN Xiao Hong's friend, a writer"

58
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Later, Xiao Jun asked her many times
how she escaped

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She didn't answer

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<i>We know nothing at all...</i>

61
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<i>...about what happened to her in Harbin</i>

62
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<i>But her later writings show that
she was almost destitute</i>

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<i>Cut off from everyone she knew</i>

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<i>"In early winter..."</i>

65
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<i>"...while walking in the bracing cold..."</i>

66
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<i>ran into my young brother"</i>

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<i>”The coffee-shop Windows...</i> ”

68
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<i>. . were frosted up"</i>

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<i>"I hung my coat
with its worn-out collar on a hanger"</i>

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You should come home

71
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It's so cold!

72
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You still play basketball at school?

73
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How's it going?

74
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You still like it?

75
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I'm better at it now

76
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I wish you still came to watch us

77
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Sister...come on home

78
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You look unhappy

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You'll get ill before long

80
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Why do you say I'm unhappy?

81
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Your hair's grown long

82
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You should get it cut

83
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Are you going to go on drifting?

84
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It's getting colder and colder

85
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<i>"My young brother's eyes are pitch black"</i>

86
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Since sister ran away, our family was ruined

87
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My father was fired by his Department

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...on the grounds that he'd brought up
his daughter badly

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I couldn't stand being mocked by my classmates

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So I changed school twice

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I ended up in Harbin Second High School

92
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That chance meeting with my sister...

93
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...became the subject
of her essay "Early Winter"

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She never saw our father again

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before she died

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<i>Not long after our meeting...</i>

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<i>...she rejoined the man
she was supposed to marry</i>

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<i>His name was Wang Enjia,</i>

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<i>a primary school teacher</i>

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Brother...

101
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Where's your dignity?

102
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You may not care, but your family does

103
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Why have you taken her back?

104
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This bitch all but ruined us!

105
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And you sit here, eating and drinking with her!

106
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Aren't you ashamed?

107
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Show some backbone!

108
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Come back, don't run!

109
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Welcome!

110
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You from one of the brothels ?

111
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- Are you?
- Come on in!

112
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What is it?

113
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I'm coming

114
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<i>That summer evening,</i>

115
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<i>Wang Enjia walked out of her life</i>

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<i>He was never heard of again</i>

117
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"BAI LANG literary editor"

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They had moved into...

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...a swanky hotel in November 1931

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"LUO FENG writer"

121
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They stayed there for seven months,

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until they were broke

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They owed the hotel more than $400

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It was $600

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A huge sum at that time

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<i>Later, the hotel locked Xiao Hong...</i>

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<i>...in a storeroom</i>

128
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<i>She hoped that Wang would reappear</i>

129
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<i>She wrote...</i>

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<i>"In May last year</i>

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<i>I tasted green apricot"</i>

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<i>"In May this year,
the misery of my life..."</i>

133
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<i>"...tastes like that green apricot"</i>

134
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<i>But Wang Enjia never did come back</i>

135
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<i>Stranger yet, the whole Wang family
disappeared too</i>

136
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<i>Yet another unsolved mystery
in the life of Xiao Hong</i>

137
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Excuse me, are you Zhang Naiying?

138
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<i>I'm the editor
of International Gazette, Lao Fei</i>

139
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He writes for us

140
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We received your letter

141
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In her letter, she said
if she couldn't pay the bill...

142
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...the hotel owner was going
to sell her to a brothel...

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...in lieu of payment

144
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It turned out to be true

145
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The woman has guts

146
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It was smart of her to write to us

147
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We must help her!

148
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Really help

149
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Damn it!

150
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I'm a woman too

151
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And the money?

152
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Where do we find that much cash?

153
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If we pooled all we have...

154
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...it wouldn't come to $600

155
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We could publish her letter

156
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Appeal for assistance

157
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You think anyone would donate a cent?

158
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San Lang hasn't said a word all evening

159
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I have nothing...

160
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Except the hair I can't afford
to cut these past few months

161
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If I could turn my hair into cash...

162
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...I would go bald

163
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San Lang is drunk

164
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Write something and sell it!

165
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The only ones who'd buy my stuff are ghosts!

166
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I can't write stuff that sells

167
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The evening of July 13th, 1932...

168
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Xiao Jun and Xiao Hong
were destined to meet.

169
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Xiao Jun mentioned that first meeting twice

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in his writings

171
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<i>"Her pale, round face was framed"</i>

172
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<i>"by long, straggly hair"</i>

173
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<i>"She seemed nervous"</i>

174
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<i>"and her voice</i>

175
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<i>sounded frightened"</i>

176
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A letter for you

177
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So you're Mr San Lang
(better known as "Xiao Jun")

178
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I'm reading one of your articles

179
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Haven't finished it yet

180
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<i>This one... The Orphaned Child</i>

181
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I like it

182
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Here are the books you wanted

183
00:17:02,921 --> 00:17:04,361
Lao Fei asked me to bring them

184
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I'll be going

185
00:17:11,521 --> 00:17:12,921
Can we talk?

186
00:17:14,001 --> 00:17:15,081
All right?

187
00:17:20,681 --> 00:17:21,801
Let's talk

188
00:17:45,961 --> 00:17:47,641
Who drew this?

189
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I did it in an idle moment

190
00:18:00,041 --> 00:18:01,641
And the calligraphy?

191
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Yes

192
00:18:04,601 --> 00:18:06,121
You copied a master?

193
00:18:08,881 --> 00:18:11,001
We did it in class

194
00:18:21,441 --> 00:18:22,761
And the poem?

195
00:18:24,641 --> 00:18:25,881
I wrote it

196
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<i>"At that moment,
I felt the world was changing”</i>

197
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<i>"The season was changing"</i>

198
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<i>"People were changing"</i>

199
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<i>"My thoughts and feelings were changing too"</i>

200
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<i>"Right in front of me"</i>

201
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<i>"was the most beautiful woman
I'd ever known"</i>

202
00:19:06,721 --> 00:19:10,081
What's your philosophy of love?

203
00:19:11,681 --> 00:19:13,041
What philosophy?

204
00:19:13,521 --> 00:19:14,481
Either you love...

205
00:19:14,481 --> 00:19:15,761
...or you ditch the whole business

206
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What if you can't do that?

207
00:19:18,041 --> 00:19:21,801
Then you're stuck with it

208
00:19:23,201 --> 00:19:25,361
I've grown quite fond
of a girl who lives downstairs

209
00:19:25,961 --> 00:19:27,721
When she gives me a smile...

210
00:19:27,721 --> 00:19:29,521
...I feel I'm the happiest guy in the world

211
00:19:41,681 --> 00:19:43,241
What do people live for?

212
00:19:50,801 --> 00:19:53,161
Why do you live?

213
00:19:53,521 --> 00:19:56,201
You have plenty of reasons to kill yourself now

214
00:19:57,721 --> 00:19:58,881
Me?

215
00:20:05,121 --> 00:20:06,801
Because there's something in this world...

216
00:20:07,281 --> 00:20:11,081
Some mystery that I cling to...

217
00:20:12,081 --> 00:20:15,321
That's why I go on living

218
00:20:20,641 --> 00:20:21,841
Me too

219
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<i>"We had too much to say"</i>

220
00:20:28,641 --> 00:20:33,801
<i>"I was ready to go several times..."</i>

221
00:20:34,681 --> 00:20:39,601
<i>"But I stayed"</i>

222
00:20:56,361 --> 00:20:57,841
Buy something to eat

223
00:21:11,201 --> 00:21:14,801
That money was his bus fare!

224
00:21:15,041 --> 00:21:17,921
That night, Xiao Jun had to walk
ten miles to get home

225
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And next day,

226
00:21:20,121 --> 00:21:22,481
he went to the hotel again

227
00:22:15,081 --> 00:22:16,241
Why?

228
00:22:17,921 --> 00:22:19,961
Why do I have no strength

229
00:22:22,201 --> 00:22:24,161
I can hardly open my eyes

230
00:22:24,961 --> 00:22:26,601
Why is that?

231
00:22:29,121 --> 00:22:30,641
Love does that to you

232
00:23:00,681 --> 00:23:02,121
The power of love may be great...

233
00:23:02,121 --> 00:23:03,841
But not greater than $600

234
00:23:04,721 --> 00:23:07,121
Xiao Jun and the rest of us were useless

235
00:23:07,801 --> 00:23:09,881
We couldn't raise the money to save Xiao Hong

236
00:23:11,481 --> 00:23:13,441
Xiao Jun tried everything

237
00:23:13,441 --> 00:23:15,441
We were at a complete loss...

238
00:23:15,561 --> 00:23:17,441
...when Harbin was suddenly flooded

239
00:23:37,961 --> 00:23:39,121
Uncle!

240
00:23:40,081 --> 00:23:41,721
Uncle! Uncle boatman!

241
00:23:41,721 --> 00:23:42,401
Here!

242
00:23:42,401 --> 00:23:43,361
I'm here!

243
00:23:45,641 --> 00:23:46,801
Uncle,

244
00:23:47,841 --> 00:23:49,721
I'm pregnant

245
00:23:50,041 --> 00:23:51,601
I'll give birth soon!

246
00:23:52,001 --> 00:23:53,361
Help me!

247
00:24:35,241 --> 00:24:36,401
Turn the boat around

248
00:24:54,721 --> 00:24:56,561
The baby for Bed 2

249
00:25:04,081 --> 00:25:07,041
It's a boy

250
00:25:07,041 --> 00:25:08,401
Your family will be happy!

251
00:25:09,281 --> 00:25:10,601
The baby for you

252
00:25:10,601 --> 00:25:11,641
No!

253
00:25:19,921 --> 00:25:21,921
<i>Xiao Hong had the baby adopted</i>

254
00:25:22,921 --> 00:25:24,721
<i>Nobody knew the details</i>

255
00:25:25,761 --> 00:25:28,441
<i>A year later she Wrote The Foundling,</i>

256
00:25:29,081 --> 00:25:30,601
<i>which told us how she felt</i>

257
00:25:35,161 --> 00:25:36,401
Your belly still hurts?

258
00:25:51,761 --> 00:25:52,841
Come along!

259
00:25:56,881 --> 00:25:57,881
Come on!

260
00:25:57,881 --> 00:25:58,921
Watch your step!

261
00:26:00,201 --> 00:26:02,321
Over here, you two

262
00:26:02,321 --> 00:26:03,401
I'm coming

263
00:26:03,401 --> 00:26:04,561
Sign here?

264
00:26:06,601 --> 00:26:07,761
Sit down

265
00:26:19,521 --> 00:26:20,561
All right?

266
00:26:20,561 --> 00:26:21,601
Yes

267
00:26:32,081 --> 00:26:33,321
Take it slowly

268
00:26:33,321 --> 00:26:34,521
It's slippery

269
00:26:36,801 --> 00:26:38,561
I'm all right

270
00:27:07,961 --> 00:27:09,321
Nothing to drink from...

271
00:27:40,921 --> 00:27:42,121
You want the bedding?

272
00:27:42,121 --> 00:27:43,121
Yes

273
00:27:43,361 --> 00:27:44,681
Fifty cents per day

274
00:27:44,681 --> 00:27:45,881
Then never mind

275
00:27:57,801 --> 00:27:59,161
Stingy bastards!

276
00:29:11,081 --> 00:29:11,961
Hungry 7

277
00:29:11,961 --> 00:29:12,961
No

278
00:29:13,161 --> 00:29:14,241
Your belly still hurts?

279
00:29:15,001 --> 00:29:15,881
No

280
00:29:18,961 --> 00:29:20,121
It's freezing outside?

281
00:29:20,641 --> 00:29:22,001
Cold and hard

282
00:29:29,961 --> 00:29:31,041
Eat

283
00:31:04,561 --> 00:31:05,641
You're back

284
00:31:07,321 --> 00:31:08,441
What's that?

285
00:31:08,441 --> 00:31:09,761
I redeemed the clothes

286
00:31:09,761 --> 00:31:11,201
we pawned

287
00:31:14,081 --> 00:31:15,521
Put this on

288
00:31:15,521 --> 00:31:16,721
I'll wear the sweater

289
00:31:35,961 --> 00:31:37,081
Where did you get the money?

290
00:31:37,521 --> 00:31:38,601
Stole it!

291
00:31:41,161 --> 00:31:42,721
I got a job as a tutor

292
00:31:43,161 --> 00:31:44,281
Really?

293
00:31:58,681 --> 00:31:59,961
It's a good place

294
00:32:00,641 --> 00:32:03,041
The rickshaw pullers all eat here

295
00:32:13,201 --> 00:32:14,321
Excuse me...

296
00:32:14,321 --> 00:32:15,481
Come...

297
00:32:49,161 --> 00:32:50,201
Taste good?

298
00:32:50,641 --> 00:32:51,761
I haven't started

299
00:32:58,401 --> 00:32:59,961
- You want meat?
- Yes

300
00:33:04,401 --> 00:33:05,401
Boss...

301
00:33:05,401 --> 00:33:07,161
Five cents-worth of pork

302
00:33:07,161 --> 00:33:08,361
Ok

303
00:33:08,361 --> 00:33:09,641
- Which part do you want?
- This

304
00:33:09,641 --> 00:33:10,641
And this

305
00:33:21,041 --> 00:33:22,321
- Thank you
- Here you are

306
00:33:23,881 --> 00:33:24,881
Pig's head meat!

307
00:33:28,361 --> 00:33:29,401
Look!

308
00:33:30,001 --> 00:33:31,201
Try it?

309
00:33:31,201 --> 00:33:32,561
Nothing special

310
00:33:36,641 --> 00:33:37,921
Look!

311
00:33:40,241 --> 00:33:41,361
We have plenty already

312
00:33:41,361 --> 00:33:42,761
We don't need meatballs

313
00:33:43,881 --> 00:33:45,241
It's meatballs in soup

314
00:33:47,641 --> 00:33:49,561
We'll have one bowl

315
00:33:49,561 --> 00:33:50,601
Okay

316
00:33:59,481 --> 00:34:00,881
It's hot!

317
00:34:00,921 --> 00:34:02,961
It's very good!

318
00:34:08,081 --> 00:34:09,321
We should have a drink with this

319
00:34:10,601 --> 00:34:11,841
I'll keep you company

320
00:34:38,001 --> 00:34:39,441
My shoelace broke!

321
00:35:29,201 --> 00:35:32,201
<i>"Electric lights ablaze in the packed city"</i>

322
00:35:32,201 --> 00:35:35,201
<i>"With cash in our pockets,"</i>

323
00:35:35,201 --> 00:35:38,841
<i>"the two of us stride boldly down the street"</i>

324
00:35:43,561 --> 00:35:44,641
Madam Xu!

325
00:35:46,601 --> 00:35:48,641
<i>I'm reading Xiao Hong's Market Street</i>

326
00:35:56,521 --> 00:35:59,001
She writes so well about cold and hunger

327
00:35:59,641 --> 00:36:02,561
We all know about poverty these days...

328
00:36:03,481 --> 00:36:06,321
But no-one writes about it better than she does

329
00:36:21,841 --> 00:36:23,441
Keep your arm and leg straight

330
00:36:23,641 --> 00:36:24,801
Straight!

331
00:36:28,681 --> 00:36:30,041
You're too padded!

332
00:36:52,321 --> 00:36:53,361
Point!

333
00:36:54,961 --> 00:36:57,401
Use your wrist

334
00:36:57,601 --> 00:36:58,641
Good

335
00:37:03,601 --> 00:37:04,841
And back

336
00:37:05,841 --> 00:37:06,801
And back

337
00:37:08,721 --> 00:37:09,681
Thrust!

338
00:37:11,201 --> 00:37:13,001
Swing!

339
00:37:26,641 --> 00:37:28,081
Roasting your legs?

340
00:37:39,761 --> 00:37:40,921
Let's eat!

341
00:37:59,121 --> 00:38:00,121
This is Lao Huang

342
00:38:00,121 --> 00:38:01,081
Zhang Naiying

343
00:38:01,081 --> 00:38:02,961
Come on in

344
00:38:04,481 --> 00:38:06,441
San Lang's here

345
00:38:09,721 --> 00:38:10,841
Zhang Naiying

346
00:38:13,881 --> 00:38:15,281
This is my wife

347
00:38:16,401 --> 00:38:17,161
San Lang

348
00:38:17,161 --> 00:38:18,161
Sit down

349
00:38:26,841 --> 00:38:29,321
Saline betrays Our Lord...

350
00:38:29,441 --> 00:38:31,481
...by following the Communist path!

351
00:38:32,241 --> 00:38:34,161
I will reclaim her for Our Lord

352
00:38:34,721 --> 00:38:37,961
Lord, please grant me the strength...

353
00:38:38,241 --> 00:38:39,401
Amen

354
00:38:40,881 --> 00:38:42,281
Saline

355
00:38:43,281 --> 00:38:44,721
Saline

356
00:38:48,801 --> 00:38:51,961
you are so kind...

357
00:38:52,561 --> 00:38:54,521
Saline...

358
00:38:55,681 --> 00:38:57,841
Saline...

359
00:38:58,841 --> 00:38:59,841
Auntie...

360
00:39:02,201 --> 00:39:03,561
In our family,

361
00:39:05,281 --> 00:39:13,201
the second miss
and the eldest son are both kind

362
00:39:14,081 --> 00:39:18,681
But the elder sister's children

363
00:39:19,401 --> 00:39:21,361
are annoying

364
00:39:23,001 --> 00:39:24,401
Auntie...

365
00:39:31,961 --> 00:39:32,881
Bai Lang!

366
00:39:33,521 --> 00:39:37,081
I warn you, if you keep on giggling,
I'll punish you!

367
00:39:37,801 --> 00:39:39,281
You too, Jin

368
00:39:39,481 --> 00:39:40,521
I won't laugh

369
00:39:40,521 --> 00:39:41,641
I won't look

370
00:39:42,401 --> 00:39:44,001
You shouldn't be laughing either!

371
00:39:44,441 --> 00:39:45,841
Try it again

372
00:39:45,841 --> 00:39:47,201
No more laughter!

373
00:39:50,921 --> 00:39:52,281
Auntie...

374
00:39:53,321 --> 00:39:55,401
Your fever is raging...

375
00:39:59,441 --> 00:40:01,481
Listen, stop laughing!

376
00:40:01,481 --> 00:40:02,561
Be serious!

377
00:40:25,521 --> 00:40:26,961
Happy New Year!

378
00:40:27,481 --> 00:40:29,601
Happy New Year!

379
00:40:30,481 --> 00:40:32,641
Later, our life improved a great deal

380
00:40:34,161 --> 00:40:36,881
We even hired a Russian tutor

381
00:40:36,881 --> 00:40:38,681
Xiao Jun started learning how to drive

382
00:40:41,721 --> 00:40:43,881
One day he came back and said

383
00:40:44,201 --> 00:40:45,961
he'd made a new friend

384
00:40:46,201 --> 00:40:49,761
A high school student from Shanghai

385
00:40:51,041 --> 00:40:52,281
Her name was Cheng

386
00:41:05,881 --> 00:41:08,641
<i>Miss Cheng came by very often</i>

387
00:41:08,961 --> 00:41:11,161
<i>Xiao Jun borrowed skates</i>

388
00:41:11,161 --> 00:41:12,761
<i>so that we could go skating together</i>

389
00:41:13,721 --> 00:41:17,721
<i>New friends...well,
we got closer day by day</i>

390
00:41:18,601 --> 00:41:21,281
<i>But she got closer to Xiao Jun</i>

391
00:41:30,241 --> 00:41:31,921
<i>She began to write to him</i>

392
00:41:32,801 --> 00:41:36,761
<i>They met often, but still needed to write
to each other</i>

393
00:41:53,521 --> 00:41:54,641
San Lang...

394
00:41:58,721 --> 00:41:59,921
San Lang...

395
00:42:04,041 --> 00:42:05,881
Was it true, what you said?

396
00:42:07,121 --> 00:42:08,601
That day at the hotel

397
00:42:08,601 --> 00:42:10,601
That if you hadn't seen my writing
and drawings,

398
00:42:11,001 --> 00:42:13,801
we wouldn't be together now?

399
00:42:17,081 --> 00:42:18,481
What do you mean?

400
00:42:20,281 --> 00:42:21,441
Was it true?

401
00:42:23,361 --> 00:42:24,481
As I said...

402
00:42:24,841 --> 00:42:26,401
I love you for your talents

403
00:42:37,521 --> 00:42:40,361
And if I had no talents, what then?

404
00:43:28,001 --> 00:43:30,001
"The Orphan"

405
00:43:47,241 --> 00:43:50,721
<i>After a While, though,
Miss Cheng stopped coming</i>

406
00:43:51,201 --> 00:43:52,761
<i>Maybe she was afraid of me</i>

407
00:43:54,081 --> 00:43:55,921
<i>The final time she came...</i>

408
00:44:18,481 --> 00:44:19,841
Xiao Jun is out

409
00:44:23,201 --> 00:44:24,721
I've come to say goodbye

410
00:44:25,081 --> 00:44:26,481
I'm going back to the south

411
00:44:32,161 --> 00:44:33,361
This is my boyfriend

412
00:44:33,681 --> 00:44:34,761
Hello

413
00:44:35,481 --> 00:44:37,241
I'll tell San Lang when he gets back

414
00:44:37,601 --> 00:44:38,921
He will see you off

415
00:44:40,521 --> 00:44:41,561
Good

416
00:44:42,721 --> 00:44:44,001
I'll be off, then

417
00:45:56,801 --> 00:45:58,561
That spring,

418
00:45:58,881 --> 00:46:00,921
Shu Qun lost contact with the Communist Party

419
00:46:00,921 --> 00:46:02,241
He was in danger

420
00:46:03,121 --> 00:46:05,521
He left Harbin in a hurry, for Qingdao

421
00:46:07,001 --> 00:46:08,561
And once he'd gone,

422
00:46:11,121 --> 00:46:13,001
there were consequences

423
00:46:30,441 --> 00:46:32,121
Are you Miss Bai Lang?

424
00:46:32,121 --> 00:46:33,041
Yes, and you are...?

425
00:46:33,041 --> 00:46:34,521
You are Luo Feng?

426
00:46:37,481 --> 00:46:39,961
Please come with us to the Bureau

427
00:47:05,641 --> 00:47:06,801
Bread, please

428
00:47:35,361 --> 00:47:36,321
We can go

429
00:47:36,761 --> 00:47:39,041
3.5 cents for the bread and sausages

430
00:47:41,321 --> 00:47:42,441
Sausages?

431
00:47:43,681 --> 00:47:44,961
I didn't ask for sausages!

432
00:47:45,081 --> 00:47:46,121
Don't blame me

433
00:47:46,121 --> 00:47:47,961
I didn't ask you to buy anything

434
00:47:49,401 --> 00:47:50,441
Hey, kid

435
00:48:00,841 --> 00:48:02,761
The Bureau isn't stupid

436
00:48:03,081 --> 00:48:04,481
They see that

437
00:48:04,721 --> 00:48:07,881
Luo Feng is mocking
the "Manchukuo Day" celebrations

438
00:48:08,401 --> 00:48:11,601
They're sure to hold Bai Lang responsible too

439
00:48:12,761 --> 00:48:15,121
You need to take care, Jin

440
00:48:16,001 --> 00:48:16,921
Oh yes...

441
00:48:18,001 --> 00:48:20,281
San Lang is at risk too

442
00:48:21,361 --> 00:48:23,641
For non-Party members,

443
00:48:23,641 --> 00:48:25,201
he and Xiao Hong are too conspicuous

444
00:48:26,161 --> 00:48:28,361
They don't even know that we're Party activists

445
00:48:29,001 --> 00:48:30,801
I've asked permission for them

446
00:48:30,801 --> 00:48:32,281
to be evacuated right away

447
00:49:03,961 --> 00:49:05,921
Let's go

448
00:49:37,241 --> 00:49:38,801
We saw the couple off

449
00:49:39,441 --> 00:49:41,441
They left Harbin for Qingdao

450
00:49:42,161 --> 00:49:43,761
A week after they left,

451
00:49:45,161 --> 00:49:46,761
Luo Feng was arrested again

452
00:49:48,881 --> 00:49:50,921
Two years later, Jin was killed

453
00:49:51,201 --> 00:49:53,161
by the Japanese

454
00:49:54,041 --> 00:49:55,361
Lao Huang disappeared

455
00:49:56,081 --> 00:49:57,561
We never saw him again

456
00:49:58,721 --> 00:50:02,841
I ran around trying to save Luo Feng

457
00:50:48,721 --> 00:50:49,801
<i>"In the village..."</i>

458
00:50:49,801 --> 00:50:53,161
<i>"...men and beasts were occupied
in the business of living...and dying”</i>

459
00:50:53,841 --> 00:50:56,241
<i>"The cycle of life and death there
went on..."</i>

460
00:50:56,241 --> 00:50:58,121
<i>"...exactly as it had ten years earlier"</i>

461
00:50:58,761 --> 00:51:02,281
<i>"The same number
of sparrows congregated on rooftops"</i>

462
00:51:02,481 --> 00:51:04,481
<i>"The sun was just as warm"</i>

463
00:51:04,641 --> 00:51:07,201
<i>"Nothing had changed in ten years"</i>

464
00:51:07,961 --> 00:51:10,681
<i>"Ping and Lnock-Knee were adults !"</i>

465
00:51:11,001 --> 00:51:14,481
<i>"Aunt Wang stood,with flying hair"</i>

466
00:51:14,761 --> 00:51:18,521
<i>"Outside her plot listening to songs
from the mountain"</i>

467
00:51:18,881 --> 00:51:21,961
<i>"Flags which the villagers
never saw in cold weather”</i>

468
00:51:21,961 --> 00:51:24,881
<i>"Flew up, fluttering skywards"</i>

469
00:51:25,241 --> 00:51:29,281
<i>Xiao Jun, I have received your letter</i>

470
00:51:29,881 --> 00:51:32,281
<i>I shall answer your two questions</i>

471
00:51:32,721 --> 00:51:36,201
<i>First, don't ask what we writers want now</i>

472
00:51:36,761 --> 00:51:38,881
<i>Ask instead what you can do</i>

473
00:51:43,201 --> 00:51:45,161
We never expected

474
00:51:45,801 --> 00:51:49,681
Lu Xun to answer our letter

475
00:51:50,961 --> 00:51:52,961
Nor that he'd answer so quickly

476
00:51:55,281 --> 00:51:59,041
When I <i>finished The Field of Life and Death,</i>
I was at a loss

477
00:52:00,161 --> 00:52:02,161
I had no idea how to get it published

478
00:52:05,361 --> 00:52:10,521
I hadn't moved in literary circles

479
00:52:16,761 --> 00:52:18,841
After Lu Xun's reply arrived...

480
00:52:19,241 --> 00:52:24,161
...Shu Qun and his new bride
were arrested by the Kuomintang

481
00:52:24,641 --> 00:52:26,601
Then the wife's whole family was arrested too

482
00:52:27,561 --> 00:52:30,081
We made a hasty escape from Qingdao

483
00:53:13,881 --> 00:53:16,761
<i>The political situation in Shanghai is grim</i>

484
00:53:17,161 --> 00:53:18,961
<i>The Kuomintang is in charge everywhere</i>

485
00:53:19,121 --> 00:53:20,801
<i>except the foreign concessions</i>

486
00:53:21,241 --> 00:53:23,041
<i>In tandem with the suppression</i>

487
00:53:23,041 --> 00:53:24,841
<i>of the Communists...</i>

488
00:53:25,121 --> 00:53:28,841
...the government targets cultural activities

489
00:53:29,201 --> 00:53:31,881
Lu Xun has been in hiding for four years

490
00:53:31,881 --> 00:53:33,721
He lives a semi-clandestine life

491
00:53:34,401 --> 00:53:36,561
There are literary groups,

492
00:53:36,561 --> 00:53:39,041
with different political orientations

493
00:53:39,041 --> 00:53:41,921
The debates between them are bitter

494
00:53:42,801 --> 00:53:46,161
As the most prominent writer in China,
Lu Xun stands...

495
00:53:46,161 --> 00:53:48,841
...attacked...

496
00:53:48,841 --> 00:53:50,321
...from all sides

497
00:53:50,321 --> 00:53:54,161
"NIE GANNU poet & essayist"

498
00:53:54,161 --> 00:53:55,361
In his seventh letter...

499
00:53:55,361 --> 00:53:58,121
...to Xiao Hong and Xiao Jun...

500
00:53:58,121 --> 00:54:01,241
...Lu Xun invited them to a meeting

501
00:54:59,201 --> 00:55:00,921
You are Mr Xiao Jun?

502
00:55:02,601 --> 00:55:03,641
Yes

503
00:55:05,881 --> 00:55:07,361
Then let's move, shall we?

504
00:55:18,441 --> 00:55:22,241
This café is mainly patronized by clients
from the ballroom nearby

505
00:55:23,281 --> 00:55:25,401
It's quiet in the daytimes

506
00:55:25,681 --> 00:55:27,361
Very few Chinese

507
00:55:28,401 --> 00:55:30,721
So I tend to meet friends here

508
00:55:33,001 --> 00:55:35,041
How are you doing these days?

509
00:55:35,041 --> 00:55:36,841
Thank you, Mr Lu Xun

510
00:55:36,841 --> 00:55:37,881
Thanks

511
00:55:40,641 --> 00:55:41,681
Thanks

512
00:55:46,601 --> 00:55:47,841
Help yourselves

513
00:55:50,321 --> 00:55:52,041
ls Madam Xu coming?

514
00:55:53,361 --> 00:55:54,721
They're on their way

515
00:56:00,001 --> 00:56:01,201
Daddy!

516
00:56:05,681 --> 00:56:06,881
Daddy!

517
00:56:08,521 --> 00:56:09,681
Let me introduce you

518
00:56:09,681 --> 00:56:11,761
Mr Xiao Jun

519
00:56:11,761 --> 00:56:13,121
Miss Xiao Hong

520
00:56:13,361 --> 00:56:14,441
This is Madam Xu

521
00:56:14,441 --> 00:56:15,721
Hello

522
00:56:17,561 --> 00:56:18,601
Do sit down

523
00:56:21,641 --> 00:56:23,601
You look pretty!

524
00:56:25,641 --> 00:56:26,921
What did he say?

525
00:56:27,321 --> 00:56:28,681
He says you're pretty

526
00:56:29,441 --> 00:56:30,241
Thank you!

527
00:56:30,241 --> 00:56:31,561
What's your name?

528
00:56:36,801 --> 00:56:38,121
He's called Haiying

529
00:56:38,681 --> 00:56:40,481
But he thinks the "ying" is too feminine,

530
00:56:40,481 --> 00:56:42,081
so he doesn't like it

531
00:56:43,081 --> 00:56:45,201
He'll change it when he grows up

532
00:56:50,081 --> 00:56:53,441
It's sometimes interesting to observe a child

533
00:56:54,521 --> 00:56:57,361
But to raise one entails
giving up all your own time

534
00:56:58,161 --> 00:56:59,881
It's troublesome

535
00:57:03,921 --> 00:57:05,401
Hey...

536
00:57:05,881 --> 00:57:08,081
You should answer the question

537
00:57:08,081 --> 00:57:10,161
Xiao Hong posed in her letter

538
00:57:12,761 --> 00:57:14,361
Do I look like a loose woman?

539
00:57:19,321 --> 00:57:21,481
I told you it was just a rumor!

540
00:57:24,241 --> 00:57:28,081
I'm always surprised by the kind of rumors

541
00:57:29,521 --> 00:57:32,361
they spread about me

542
00:57:32,641 --> 00:57:36,081
Most are made up by so-called writers

543
00:57:37,081 --> 00:57:38,681
Do they hate me so much?

544
00:57:39,241 --> 00:57:41,961
Most just differ on approaches to writing

545
00:57:42,481 --> 00:57:44,801
I don't socialize with them

546
00:57:45,721 --> 00:57:48,281
They're basically just amusing themselves

547
00:57:51,561 --> 00:57:53,961
I can see that we've overrated
the writers in Shanghai

548
00:57:55,721 --> 00:57:58,041
We've come from the far north

549
00:57:58,681 --> 00:58:01,281
We've been longing
to come to this cultural center

550
00:58:01,681 --> 00:58:03,201
We thought leftist writers

551
00:58:03,201 --> 00:58:05,281
were exemplary fighters

552
00:58:06,081 --> 00:58:10,041
I think writers tend to have a character flaw

553
00:58:10,921 --> 00:58:14,321
Their lines of thought are not too steady

554
00:58:15,041 --> 00:58:19,161
Sometimes they bend to the east,
sometimes to the west

555
00:58:19,921 --> 00:58:22,681
Few of them have firm convictions

556
00:58:24,161 --> 00:58:25,521
When the left prospered...

557
00:58:25,521 --> 00:58:28,881
...they rushed to join what seemed
a fashionable cause

558
00:58:29,481 --> 00:58:31,601
Then, when the persecutions began,

559
00:58:31,601 --> 00:58:34,361
they changed direction

560
00:58:35,401 --> 00:58:37,401
Some even betrayed their friends,

561
00:58:37,641 --> 00:58:39,801
handing them over to the other side

562
00:58:40,521 --> 00:58:42,801
It happens in other countries too

563
00:58:43,561 --> 00:58:45,761
But I think it's endemic in China

564
00:58:46,801 --> 00:58:48,481
It's really a bad thing

565
00:58:52,001 --> 00:58:53,921
How is Ding Ling doing since they seized her?

566
00:58:54,401 --> 00:58:56,721
She's still under house arrest in Nanking

567
00:58:57,681 --> 00:58:59,601
We are not sure about the rest

568
00:59:07,561 --> 00:59:09,561
Here you are...

569
00:59:14,641 --> 00:59:17,681
Small change for the tram

570
00:59:28,401 --> 00:59:29,841
Give me the manuscript

571
00:59:30,841 --> 00:59:32,121
Haiying!

572
01:00:14,361 --> 01:00:18,201
Xiao Hong! Xiao Hong!

573
01:00:23,881 --> 01:00:25,041
Madam Xu!

574
01:00:27,481 --> 01:00:28,721
It's terribly cold today

575
01:00:28,721 --> 01:00:29,521
It's all right

576
01:00:29,521 --> 01:00:31,201
Lu Xun is waiting for you

577
01:00:31,201 --> 01:00:32,681
Welcome, please come in

578
01:00:40,441 --> 01:00:42,041
Let me introduce you

579
01:00:42,761 --> 01:00:44,761
You can talk freely in front of these people

580
01:00:46,121 --> 01:00:50,401
This gentleman is our "boss"

581
01:00:51,641 --> 01:00:52,801
Good to meet you

582
01:00:53,401 --> 01:00:54,561
Mr Nie...

583
01:00:55,201 --> 01:00:57,401
His wife Miss Zhou...

584
01:00:58,001 --> 01:01:03,241
And this couple are Mr Xiao Jun
and Miss Xiao Hong

585
01:01:05,961 --> 01:01:07,681
They've recently arrived from Manchuria

586
01:01:09,641 --> 01:01:13,761
We're supposed to be celebrating
the birth of Mr Hu's son,

587
01:01:14,361 --> 01:01:16,401
but he's absent. Maybe the invitation
didn't reach them

588
01:01:17,881 --> 01:01:21,561
Shanghai has its deficiencies

589
01:01:25,121 --> 01:01:26,921
Move round a little

590
01:01:27,041 --> 01:01:28,481
Make yourselves comfortable

591
01:01:32,201 --> 01:01:32,921
"HU FENG literary critic"

592
01:01:32,921 --> 01:01:34,881
Mr Lu Xun's invitation was delivered

593
01:01:34,881 --> 01:01:36,481
the day after the party

594
01:01:36,481 --> 01:01:37,081
"MEI ZHI Writer"

595
01:01:37,081 --> 01:01:38,721
That's...

596
01:01:38,721 --> 01:01:39,961
...why we weren't there

597
01:01:39,961 --> 01:01:41,721
I'm sorry they waited

598
01:01:42,641 --> 01:01:45,961
Lu Xun later gave me Xiao Jun's address,

599
01:01:45,961 --> 01:01:47,641
and asked me to contact them directly

600
01:01:49,921 --> 01:01:51,241
<i>After that dinner,</i>

601
01:01:51,481 --> 01:01:54,801
<i>Lu Xun wrote to the Xiaos, saying...</i>

602
01:01:56,121 --> 01:01:58,761
<i>"The enemy is nothing"</i>

603
01:01:59,681 --> 01:02:03,441
<i>”Much more terrible are the pests
in our own camp”</i>

604
01:02:04,401 --> 01:02:06,681
<i>"They're the ones who cause disasters"</i>

605
01:02:07,441 --> 01:02:11,921
<i>"Sometimes I feel lonely, even distraught"</i>

606
01:02:13,041 --> 01:02:19,161
<i>"Still, I just do what I can"</i>

607
01:02:20,321 --> 01:02:23,081
<i>"Even if I'm on the verge of despair"</i>

608
01:02:42,001 --> 01:02:43,281
Coming!

609
01:02:51,921 --> 01:02:53,001
Please come in

610
01:02:55,201 --> 01:02:56,401
Madam Xu...

611
01:03:02,241 --> 01:03:04,601
<i>"The first time we visited Lu Xun's home"</i>

612
01:03:05,441 --> 01:03:10,681
<i>"was in winter, towards dusk"</i>

613
01:03:10,681 --> 01:03:14,601
<i>”It was a little dark
in the downstairs room"</i>

614
01:03:26,561 --> 01:03:29,161
<i>"Mr Lu Xun had two kinds of cigarettes,"</i>

615
01:03:29,361 --> 01:03:32,761
<i>"one expensive and one cheap"</i>

616
01:03:33,161 --> 01:03:35,321
<i>"The cheap ones came in a green canister,"</i>

617
01:03:35,321 --> 01:03:38,041
<i>"and Lu Xun smoked those himself"</i>

618
01:03:38,201 --> 01:03:40,281
<i>"The others were in a white canister,”</i>

619
01:03:40,441 --> 01:03:43,321
<i>"served to guests"</i>

620
01:03:57,241 --> 01:03:58,241
Help yourself!

621
01:04:00,761 --> 01:04:02,481
I have enough

622
01:04:03,721 --> 01:04:05,321
You drink

623
01:04:05,321 --> 01:04:07,001
Enough for me

624
01:04:09,041 --> 01:04:10,401
Help yourself

625
01:04:10,921 --> 01:04:12,041
Enough

626
01:04:15,241 --> 01:04:17,801
Both of us raise a glass
to you on our first visit

627
01:04:17,801 --> 01:04:18,961
Thank you

628
01:04:19,121 --> 01:04:21,001
Thanks for your dinner

629
01:04:21,121 --> 01:04:23,241
He's very happy that you came

630
01:04:23,641 --> 01:04:26,001
- You drink for me
<i>- I'll</i> drink for him

631
01:04:26,681 --> 01:04:27,881
You're always welcome

632
01:04:29,801 --> 01:04:30,921
Bottoms up

633
01:05:08,681 --> 01:05:13,201
<i>"In Mr Lu Xun's parlor, there's a pot-plant"</i>

634
01:05:14,201 --> 01:05:17,401
<i>"When I first saw it, I asked..."</i>

635
01:05:19,241 --> 01:05:20,681
What is this?

636
01:05:20,681 --> 01:05:22,361
It's an evergreen

637
01:05:22,961 --> 01:05:24,321
An evergreen?

638
01:05:24,441 --> 01:05:25,401
Yes

639
01:05:25,801 --> 01:05:27,041
it will always look like that

640
01:05:48,641 --> 01:05:55,081
<i>"That evening,
we chatted from 9pm to 10pm..."</i>

641
01:05:55,081 --> 01:05:57,001
<i>"...and then until 11pm"</i>

642
01:05:57,761 --> 01:06:02,121
<i>"We wanted to go,
so that Mr Lu Xun could rest"</i>

643
01:06:02,321 --> 01:06:05,281
<i>"We could see that he was not
in the best of health"</i>

644
01:06:05,721 --> 01:06:10,001
<i>"Madam Xu told us he'd had a cold
for more than a month"</i>

645
01:06:10,001 --> 01:06:11,321
<i>"He'd only just got over it"</i>

646
01:06:12,881 --> 01:06:16,361
<i>"But Mr Lu Xun didn't seem tired"</i>

647
01:06:20,361 --> 01:06:23,521
<i>"After 11 o'clock, it began to rain"</i>

648
01:06:24,201 --> 01:06:27,481
<i>"The rain pattered on the windowpanes"</i>

649
01:06:44,801 --> 01:06:49,241
<i>"It was late, it was raining..."</i>

650
01:06:49,681 --> 01:06:54,041
<i>"We felt uneasy
and kept getting up to leave”</i>

651
01:06:54,361 --> 01:06:58,601
<i>"But Mr Lu Xun and Madam Xu insisted
that We stay longer"</i>

652
01:07:00,561 --> 01:07:04,361
<i>"The trams run until midnight"</i>

653
01:07:05,161 --> 01:07:09,561
<i>"And so it was nearly 12"</i>

654
01:07:10,201 --> 01:07:13,041
<i>"before we went outside"</i>

655
01:07:15,561 --> 01:07:16,521
Mr Xiao Jun...

656
01:07:16,521 --> 01:07:17,281
Sir

657
01:07:17,281 --> 01:07:20,481
Next time you come...remember this plate

658
01:07:21,561 --> 01:07:24,281
My house is on the lane with this plate

659
01:07:24,841 --> 01:07:25,681
No. 9

660
01:07:25,681 --> 01:07:26,801
Remember it

661
01:07:26,801 --> 01:07:27,921
I Will

662
01:07:28,081 --> 01:07:29,321
Goodbye

663
01:07:29,321 --> 01:07:30,121
Go back indoors!

664
01:07:30,121 --> 01:07:31,161
Goodbye

665
01:07:31,161 --> 01:07:32,801
- See you again!
- Take care on the road!

666
01:07:34,801 --> 01:07:37,841
<i>”Mr Lu Xun insisted on seeing us off
on the alley"</i>

667
01:07:38,601 --> 01:07:39,721
<i>"I was thinking..."</i>

668
01:07:39,721 --> 01:07:41,721
<i>"Why did he insist on</i>

669
01:07:42,681 --> 01:07:44,761
<i>seeing off his two young guests?"</i>

670
01:07:45,121 --> 01:07:46,601
<i>"The rain would wet his hair"</i>

671
01:07:46,601 --> 01:07:49,921
<i>"He could catch a chill and be ill again"</i>

672
01:08:07,281 --> 01:08:09,561
<i>Xiao Hong is a better writer than you are</i>

673
01:08:11,401 --> 01:08:12,641
Xiao Hong's characters

674
01:08:12,641 --> 01:08:14,721
are so real...

675
01:08:14,921 --> 01:08:16,201
intensely alive

676
01:08:16,361 --> 01:08:19,681
We can feel their joys and sorrows

677
01:08:20,001 --> 01:08:21,841
It's as if we're living their lives

678
01:08:22,481 --> 01:08:23,841
And you...

679
01:08:23,841 --> 01:08:25,321
You're richer in insight

680
01:08:26,121 --> 01:08:27,401
But we can see...

681
01:08:27,401 --> 01:08:28,801
Thank you...l can't drink much

682
01:08:28,801 --> 01:08:29,801
That's enough

683
01:08:30,521 --> 01:08:31,481
But we can see...

684
01:08:31,481 --> 01:08:33,961
You're so painstaking

685
01:08:33,961 --> 01:08:36,041
- in achieving what you do
- Absolutely

686
01:08:36,041 --> 01:08:38,441
Whereas Xiao Hong's genius is

687
01:08:38,441 --> 01:08:40,201
that she relies more on her feelings

688
01:08:40,681 --> 01:08:42,241
It's really something precious

689
01:08:43,441 --> 01:08:44,561
Precious

690
01:08:45,881 --> 01:08:48,281
I've always thought highly of her talents

691
01:08:49,201 --> 01:08:51,201
But she still needs my help

692
01:09:16,561 --> 01:09:18,441
Xiao Hong is there alone

693
01:09:18,681 --> 01:09:20,481
I told Haiying to play with her

694
01:09:20,881 --> 01:09:22,801
Go and keep her company

695
01:09:33,441 --> 01:09:34,401
Haiying...

696
01:09:34,401 --> 01:09:35,961
Go fetch your toy bricks

697
01:09:35,961 --> 01:09:39,561
Then you can play with me
and Auntie Xiao Hong, all right?

698
01:09:39,561 --> 01:09:41,921
Can I finish this first?

699
01:09:41,921 --> 01:09:44,761
I have to fix my car

700
01:09:48,561 --> 01:09:50,321
<i>Xiao Hong is in the front room again</i>

701
01:09:50,841 --> 01:09:53,161
<i>She spends half the day just sitting there</i>

702
01:09:53,881 --> 01:09:55,841
<i>I don't have time to keep her company</i>

703
01:10:14,361 --> 01:10:17,001
She's suffering, lonely...

704
01:10:17,401 --> 01:10:19,681
She has nowhere else to go

705
01:10:20,401 --> 01:10:22,961
So how can I turn her away?

706
01:10:28,721 --> 01:10:32,201
Miss Xiao Hong was a powerful writer

707
01:10:33,161 --> 01:10:37,161
But in dealing with her problems,
she was far too emotional...

708
01:10:39,241 --> 01:10:41,801
...as women always are

709
01:10:58,481 --> 01:10:59,761
I'll eat out

710
01:11:22,921 --> 01:11:27,481
<i>During her lifetime,
Xiao Hong never mentioned...</i>

711
01:11:27,481 --> 01:11:32,641
<i>...her break-up with Xiao Jun</i>

712
01:11:33,801 --> 01:11:36,001
<i>So we'll never know exactly how it happened</i>

713
01:11:49,761 --> 01:11:54,641
We are both prone to sickness

714
01:11:56,761 --> 01:11:58,241
It pains me...

715
01:12:00,521 --> 01:12:02,161
It seems I have spent my whole life...

716
01:12:02,401 --> 01:12:08,081
...being ill and scolding others

717
01:12:11,321 --> 01:12:16,361
I lost all my teeth before the age of 30

718
01:12:17,561 --> 01:12:19,681
So I have a mouthful of false teeth

719
01:12:21,401 --> 01:12:22,801
I gave up drinking...

720
01:12:23,521 --> 01:12:25,201
Took cod liver oil...

721
01:12:26,601 --> 01:12:28,961
...to prolong my life

722
01:12:31,041 --> 01:12:33,641
Not only for my loved ones...

723
01:12:35,361 --> 01:12:38,001
...but also for my enemies

724
01:12:41,761 --> 01:12:43,601
I know...

725
01:12:46,241 --> 01:12:48,041
I'm not a magnanimous man

726
01:13:03,161 --> 01:13:04,881
For me, to speak of happiness...

727
01:13:07,561 --> 01:13:09,601
...means either looking back
to the old days...

728
01:13:12,641 --> 01:13:15,321
...or looking forward

729
01:13:15,961 --> 01:13:18,761
to my final resting place

730
01:13:22,521 --> 01:13:24,921
All warriors are like this

731
01:13:28,241 --> 01:13:30,601
We live in such a place...

732
01:13:34,161 --> 01:13:36,481
We live at such a time...

733
01:14:05,361 --> 01:14:11,481
<i>Mr Lu Xun hosted a farewell dinner
for Xiao Hong in his home</i>

734
01:14:14,081 --> 01:14:17,361
<i>Madam Xu prepared the food herself</i>

735
01:14:18,681 --> 01:14:20,321
<i>Xiao Hong left for Japan</i>

736
01:14:23,321 --> 01:14:24,761
Lu Xun must have known about the crisis

737
01:14:24,761 --> 01:14:27,321
between Xiao Hong and Xiao Jun

738
01:14:29,481 --> 01:14:32,401
But he never said anything

739
01:14:36,241 --> 01:14:38,121
Maybe he felt he shouldn't interfere

740
01:14:40,721 --> 01:14:43,201
<i>Lu Xun introduced his friend Huang Yuan</i>

741
01:14:43,801 --> 01:14:46,561
<i>He advised Xiao Hong
to spend some time in Japan...</i>

742
01:14:46,561 --> 01:14:47,921
<i>...to write and to rest</i>

743
01:14:48,481 --> 01:14:51,201
<i>Huang's wife Yuehua was studying in Japan...</i>

744
01:14:51,481 --> 01:14:53,321
<i>...so she could take care of Xiao Hong</i>

745
01:14:54,441 --> 01:14:56,881
<i>Xiao Jun was moving to Qingdao</i>

746
01:15:04,081 --> 01:15:05,361
<i>"Jun..."</i>

747
01:15:05,841 --> 01:15:10,081
<i>"Today I went out for the first time"</i>

748
01:15:10,281 --> 01:15:11,881
<i>"I went into Jinbocho"</i>

749
01:15:12,601 --> 01:15:14,521
<i>"It's a district full of bookshops"</i>

750
01:15:15,401 --> 01:15:18,721
<i>"But I didn't much enjoy it,
since I was alone"</i>

751
01:15:19,601 --> 01:15:21,241
<i>"I walked back the same way"</i>

752
01:15:21,841 --> 01:15:23,361
<i>"Everything was fresh to me"</i>

753
01:15:24,041 --> 01:15:27,201
<i>"The streets and sights are quite different"</i>

754
01:15:28,361 --> 01:15:30,001
<i>"But there's a black river..."</i>

755
01:15:30,201 --> 01:15:31,841
<i>"...just like the one in Shanghai"</i>

756
01:15:31,841 --> 01:15:33,641
<i>"Sorry-looking boats bobbed on it"</i>

757
01:15:33,921 --> 01:15:36,561
<i>"There were women with their children..."</i>

758
01:15:36,561 --> 01:15:38,561
<i>"...in ragged clothes"</i>

759
01:15:38,561 --> 01:15:41,521
<i>"And the dark water smelt just the same"</i>

760
01:15:45,041 --> 01:15:47,521
<i>Most of these letters were sent</i>

761
01:15:48,281 --> 01:15:52,721
<i>by Xiao Hong in 1936 and 1937</i>

762
01:15:53,241 --> 01:15:55,321
<i>While she was in Tokyo</i>

763
01:15:55,761 --> 01:15:58,801
<i>I've been roaming around
for more than forty years...</i>

764
01:15:59,561 --> 01:16:02,401
<i>So the fact that these letters
have survived...</i>

765
01:16:03,361 --> 01:16:05,721
<i>...and can be published today...</i>

766
01:16:06,561 --> 01:16:10,761
<i>...is little short of miraculous</i>

767
01:16:23,721 --> 01:16:26,681
If you get lost, ask a passer-by

768
01:16:27,081 --> 01:16:28,401
Travel safely, Yuehua!

769
01:16:28,721 --> 01:16:32,921
<i>”Jun, Yuehua is taking me to a doctor
for a check-up"</i>

770
01:16:32,921 --> 01:16:35,441
<i>"Very cheap, only two dollars!"</i>

771
01:16:35,841 --> 01:16:37,161
<i>"Without her help,"</i>

772
01:16:37,161 --> 01:16:40,721
<i>"I wouldn't have been able to go"</i>

773
01:16:41,881 --> 01:16:43,441
<i>"You probably haven't heard..."</i>

774
01:16:43,441 --> 01:16:46,401
<i>"Her father-in-law is ill,
and they have no money"</i>

775
01:16:46,401 --> 01:16:48,561
<i>"So Yuehua has to go back"</i>

776
01:16:50,241 --> 01:16:52,281
<i>"Once she's gone, damn it,</i>

777
01:16:52,281 --> 01:16:54,001
<i>I'll have no friend here"</i>

778
01:17:11,041 --> 01:17:12,201
<i>"Jun, "</i>

779
01:17:15,041 --> 01:17:17,881
<i>"I've had a fever for some days"</i>

780
01:17:18,961 --> 01:17:20,801
<i>"My lips are chapped"</i>

781
01:17:24,441 --> 01:17:27,881
<i>"Of course, everyone has to die"</i>

782
01:17:29,641 --> 01:17:31,721
<i>"But knowing the fact is one thing..."</i>

783
01:17:33,001 --> 01:17:35,521
<i>"Accepting it emotionally is another"</i>

784
01:17:39,081 --> 01:17:42,921
<i>"Now he's been gone for five days"</i>

785
01:17:45,281 --> 01:17:47,761
<i>"Where is he sleeping now?"</i>

786
01:18:00,001 --> 01:18:07,961
"Mr. Lu Xun's tomb"

787
01:18:21,561 --> 01:18:25,521
<i>"Jun, when moonlight whitens the window..."</i>

788
01:18:26,561 --> 01:18:29,761
<i>like to turn off the light
and sit in silence"</i>

789
01:18:29,961 --> 01:18:34,761
<i>”Then suddenly the sound
of a bell in my heart"</i>

790
01:18:35,601 --> 01:18:40,121
<i>"breaks the silence"</i>

791
01:18:42,121 --> 01:18:45,641
<i>"Isn't this my golden era? Right now?"</i>

792
01:18:50,001 --> 01:18:54,241
<i>"I touch the tablecloth,
I turn around, I touch the chair...”</i>

793
01:18:54,241 --> 01:18:56,041
<i>"I raise my hands in front of me"</i>

794
01:18:56,041 --> 01:18:57,521
<i>"It's rather vague..."</i>

795
01:18:57,721 --> 01:19:01,241
<i>"But I'm sure these are my hands"</i>

796
01:19:03,241 --> 01:19:04,441
<i>"Yes..."</i>

797
01:19:06,081 --> 01:19:07,561
<i>"I'm in Japan...</i>

798
01:19:09,361 --> 01:19:11,601
<i>free and comfortable"</i>

799
01:19:11,841 --> 01:19:13,921
<i>"Calm and carefree"</i>

800
01:19:14,241 --> 01:19:16,481
<i>"No money worries"</i>

801
01:19:17,681 --> 01:19:20,041
<i>"It really is my golden era"</i>

802
01:19:22,121 --> 01:19:24,001
<i>"And I'm spending it in a cage"</i>

803
01:19:31,041 --> 01:19:32,561
<i>”As for love,</i>

804
01:19:33,241 --> 01:19:37,001
<i>I was once unfaithful to her"</i>

805
01:19:37,481 --> 01:19:39,561
<i>"During our time together,"</i>

806
01:19:40,081 --> 01:19:44,321
<i>"she was faithful to me"</i>

807
01:19:45,041 --> 01:19:46,561
<i>"It's a fact, I admit it”</i>

808
01:19:48,081 --> 01:19:49,761
<i>"But while she was in Japan..."</i>

809
01:19:50,841 --> 01:19:52,841
<i>had an affair with Yuehua"</i>

810
01:19:53,401 --> 01:19:57,001
<i>"It didn't last long"</i>

811
01:19:58,361 --> 01:20:03,601
<i>"Yuehua and I both knew
that we couldn't stay together”</i>

812
01:20:05,081 --> 01:20:08,601
<i>"So, to end our fruitless affair,"</i>

813
01:20:09,601 --> 01:20:11,361
<i>"we agreed..."</i>

814
01:20:11,881 --> 01:20:15,401
<i>"...to urge Xiao Hong to return from Japan"</i>

815
01:20:16,401 --> 01:20:21,681
<i>"So that's what we did,
however much it pained us"</i>

816
01:21:09,681 --> 01:21:11,481
I tried to lose myself in writing

817
01:21:11,481 --> 01:21:12,841
To forget my misery

818
01:21:13,081 --> 01:21:14,761
But it was too much to bear

819
01:21:16,241 --> 01:21:17,681
When I couldn't stand it any more...

820
01:21:19,281 --> 01:21:23,521
...I crept outside to walk in the streets

821
01:21:24,601 --> 01:21:26,321
The desolate streets...

822
01:21:26,321 --> 01:21:27,761
I wandered about...

823
01:21:29,521 --> 01:21:30,561
...like a ghost

824
01:21:42,001 --> 01:21:46,161
He ended his affair with Yuehua

825
01:21:46,601 --> 01:21:49,281
for moral reasons...

826
01:21:51,641 --> 01:21:56,121
But he'd got her pregnant

827
01:22:00,641 --> 01:22:02,841
<i>She had an abortion</i>

828
01:22:13,921 --> 01:22:18,241
I didn't hate her

829
01:22:19,521 --> 01:22:23,881
I didn't let it end our friendship

830
01:22:26,601 --> 01:22:28,161
I still respected her

831
01:22:29,481 --> 01:22:34,041
I was grateful she'd taken care of me in Japan

832
01:22:35,361 --> 01:22:36,721
Soseki's novels

833
01:22:36,721 --> 01:22:40,801
took issue with the Meiji period's view
of the world...

834
01:22:43,521 --> 01:22:45,161
Let me introduce you

835
01:22:45,161 --> 01:22:47,041
This is the Japanese writer, Mr Uchida

836
01:22:47,041 --> 01:22:48,601
And his translator

837
01:22:49,321 --> 01:22:50,721
You must know Jin Yi already

838
01:22:51,801 --> 01:22:52,841
Xiao Jun

839
01:22:52,841 --> 01:22:54,601
- Xiao Hong
- Nice to meet you

840
01:22:54,601 --> 01:22:56,161
Sit here, Xiao Jun

841
01:23:02,121 --> 01:23:03,601
What happened to your eye?

842
01:23:03,601 --> 01:23:04,561
What happened?

843
01:23:07,241 --> 01:23:09,401
You're lucky the eye itself wasn't hurt

844
01:23:10,201 --> 01:23:11,241
Does it hurt?

845
01:23:11,521 --> 01:23:13,281
Be more careful!

846
01:23:14,881 --> 01:23:15,961
It's nothing

847
01:23:17,081 --> 01:23:20,081
I bumped into something

848
01:23:22,761 --> 01:23:24,721
in the dark

849
01:23:29,481 --> 01:23:30,681
It's all right

850
01:23:35,761 --> 01:23:36,921
What would you like?

851
01:23:38,121 --> 01:23:39,161
Anything

852
01:23:40,841 --> 01:23:42,401
I go this way

853
01:23:44,281 --> 01:23:45,641
Be careful!

854
01:23:46,001 --> 01:23:47,561
Ok, no problem

855
01:23:48,041 --> 01:23:49,361
What are you hiding?

856
01:23:50,001 --> 01:23:51,081
I hit her

857
01:23:54,281 --> 01:23:55,401
Don't listen to him

858
01:23:56,001 --> 01:23:57,201
It wasn't deliberate

859
01:23:57,601 --> 01:23:59,001
He was drunk, I tried to stop him drinking

860
01:23:59,001 --> 01:24:01,961
He pushed me aside, and I hit something

861
01:24:02,881 --> 01:24:04,321
Don't defend me!

862
01:24:04,321 --> 01:24:05,561
Leave me alone!

863
01:24:23,201 --> 01:24:26,281
<i>The "July 7th Incident"
in 1937 launched the war with Japan</i>

864
01:24:27,081 --> 01:24:29,041
<i>Xiao Hong and Xiao Jun came to Wuhan</i>

865
01:24:29,161 --> 01:24:30,121
"JIANG XIJIN poet, writer"

866
01:24:30,121 --> 01:24:32,961
I first met them one morning

867
01:24:33,721 --> 01:24:37,001
Back then,

868
01:24:37,001 --> 01:24:38,881
we were working for the magazine The <i>Fight</i>

869
01:24:39,361 --> 01:24:41,201
I lived across the river,

870
01:24:41,881 --> 01:24:44,761
and the ferry stopped running at midnight

871
01:24:45,921 --> 01:24:48,241
<i>I never finished work until late,</i>

872
01:24:49,601 --> 01:24:51,041
<i>so I couldn't get home</i>

873
01:24:51,041 --> 01:24:52,201
<i>I had no money for a hotel,</i>

874
01:24:52,881 --> 01:24:55,081
<i>so I had to sleep in the quarantine boat</i>

875
01:24:55,801 --> 01:24:58,241
<i>The guy in charge, Yu Fei, was my friend</i>

876
01:24:58,561 --> 01:25:02,361
<i>That morning I went on board to do my job</i>

877
01:25:05,681 --> 01:25:06,721
Sit down, everyone!

878
01:25:07,121 --> 01:25:09,481
When you've been checked, you can go!

879
01:25:18,241 --> 01:25:19,321
Xiao Jun!

880
01:25:20,921 --> 01:25:21,841
Yu Fei

881
01:25:24,321 --> 01:25:25,441
It's you!

882
01:25:26,881 --> 01:25:28,001
She's seasick...

883
01:25:29,201 --> 01:25:31,081
Xi Jin! Over here!

884
01:25:33,441 --> 01:25:35,001
Help them into our boat

885
01:25:35,561 --> 01:25:36,641
Thank you

886
01:25:38,761 --> 01:25:39,521
"ZHANG MEILIN Writer"

887
01:25:39,521 --> 01:25:41,681
When I saw Xiao Hong again in Wuhan...

888
01:25:42,201 --> 01:25:43,601
...I felt she'd changed,

889
01:25:43,601 --> 01:25:45,001
but I couldn't work out how

890
01:25:48,881 --> 01:25:51,001
Lots of people visited their place,

891
01:25:51,001 --> 01:25:52,681
mostly writers and artists

892
01:25:52,681 --> 01:25:55,241
One day a pale-faced man turned up

893
01:25:55,241 --> 01:25:57,841
He was slightly hunched over
and wore smart clothes

894
01:26:02,361 --> 01:26:03,281
Xiao Jun!

895
01:26:03,281 --> 01:26:04,241
Look who's here!

896
01:26:05,561 --> 01:26:07,041
- I can manage
- Who is it?

897
01:26:07,241 --> 01:26:08,521
Xiao Jun!

898
01:26:10,161 --> 01:26:11,161
Hey! Duanmu!

899
01:26:12,681 --> 01:26:14,401
- You got my letter?
- Of course!

900
01:26:14,401 --> 01:26:16,121
If I hadn't, I would be here!

901
01:26:16,121 --> 01:26:17,281
Sit down

902
01:26:17,921 --> 01:26:19,081
Have some tea

903
01:26:19,281 --> 01:26:22,281
I didn't think the letter
would reach you so quickly

904
01:26:25,201 --> 01:26:27,681
I have to look up a friend
to find me a place to live

905
01:26:31,721 --> 01:26:33,201
Why bother?

906
01:26:33,361 --> 01:26:35,161
You can stay here

907
01:26:35,161 --> 01:26:36,681
Right? It'll be no trouble

908
01:26:36,681 --> 01:26:38,441
Hu Feng and Nie come by every day

909
01:26:38,801 --> 01:26:40,841
Xi Jin has a room to himself,

910
01:26:40,841 --> 01:26:41,881
let's ask him

911
01:26:41,881 --> 01:26:43,441
Don't bother Xi Jin

912
01:26:43,441 --> 01:26:44,681
You can sleep in our room

913
01:26:44,681 --> 01:26:45,641
It's a big bed

914
01:26:45,641 --> 01:26:47,961
I'll sleep in the middle,
Xiao Hong on the inside, you on the outside

915
01:26:47,961 --> 01:26:49,281
You won't fall off, I promise!

916
01:27:13,721 --> 01:27:14,881
You haven't had a cigarette all day

917
01:27:14,881 --> 01:27:15,921
Don't you want one?

918
01:27:26,041 --> 01:27:29,001
Actually, I don't smoke

919
01:27:33,841 --> 01:27:36,801
But when I read your novel...

920
01:27:36,801 --> 01:27:37,841
...I had a cigarette

921
01:27:41,361 --> 01:27:42,961
We hadn't met back then

922
01:27:44,721 --> 01:27:45,641
Thank you

923
01:27:52,281 --> 01:27:56,001
Xiao Jun says your writing lacks power

924
01:27:58,041 --> 01:28:00,441
But I think <i>The Field of Life and Death</i>
is bold and forceful

925
01:28:00,761 --> 01:28:02,641
It's better than his <i>Village in August</i>

926
01:28:06,161 --> 01:28:09,161
You get closer to the essence of literature

927
01:28:10,401 --> 01:28:12,041
You're the more talented

928
01:28:14,961 --> 01:28:16,881
They always said my novels were no good

929
01:28:17,281 --> 01:28:21,641
That was because I didn't write
the way they expected

930
01:28:22,561 --> 01:28:24,001
I don't believe in rules

931
01:28:24,561 --> 01:28:25,721
There should be as many types of novel

932
01:28:25,721 --> 01:28:27,601
as there are writers

933
01:28:29,081 --> 01:28:30,121
I agree

934
01:28:39,481 --> 01:28:40,801
You like my gloves?

935
01:28:53,401 --> 01:28:56,201
You have such small hands! Fits me perfectly!

936
01:29:00,401 --> 01:29:01,921
You really are so bourgeois

937
01:29:03,641 --> 01:29:04,641
Let's go

938
01:29:14,001 --> 01:29:16,161
Nie! Duanmu!

939
01:29:18,481 --> 01:29:19,361
Xi Jin!

940
01:29:19,361 --> 01:29:21,281
- Good of you to come!
- We are here to say good bye

941
01:29:21,281 --> 01:29:23,041
In January 1938,

942
01:29:23,041 --> 01:29:25,721
<i>Li Gongpu, founder of
the People's Revolutionary University...</i>

943
01:29:25,721 --> 01:29:27,121
<i>...arrived in Wuhan from Shanxi</i>

944
01:29:27,681 --> 01:29:30,721
<i>He came to enlist
intellectuals to teach at Linfen</i>

945
01:29:31,681 --> 01:29:33,281
<i>Six of us writing for our magazine July
agreed to go</i>

946
01:29:33,481 --> 01:29:35,601
<i>Everyone except Hu Feng</i>

947
01:29:35,601 --> 01:29:36,801
<i>The other six,</i>

948
01:29:37,001 --> 01:29:40,001
<i>Xiao Hong, Xiao Jun, Duanmu, Nie,</i>

949
01:29:40,001 --> 01:29:40,961
<i>Ai Qing and Tian Jian...</i>

950
01:29:40,961 --> 01:29:42,321
<i>...all volunteered to go to Linfen</i>

951
01:29:43,321 --> 01:29:46,881
<i>The University also recruited students
from Wuhan</i>

952
01:31:01,041 --> 01:31:03,041
The north is a sad country...

953
01:31:24,641 --> 01:31:26,641
Zhang Mutao, Trotskyite and spy
for the Japanese...

954
01:31:27,241 --> 01:31:29,481
...after the Xi'an Incident...

955
01:31:29,641 --> 01:31:33,401
...stirred up militants
in the Communist armies of the north

956
01:31:33,401 --> 01:31:36,201
He took advantage of their wish
to rescue Zhang Xueliang

957
01:31:36,201 --> 01:31:38,601
And incited them
to attack the Kuomintang army...

958
01:31:38,601 --> 01:31:40,241
...to overthrow Chiang Kaishek

959
01:31:40,761 --> 01:31:42,801
When the anti-Japanese war began,

960
01:31:43,001 --> 01:31:45,041
Zhang Mutao returned to Taiyuan...

961
01:31:45,401 --> 01:31:46,601
...and agitated against

962
01:31:46,601 --> 01:31:49,841
unified resistance to the Japanese

963
01:31:49,841 --> 01:31:53,321
He denounced the United Front of Communists
and Nationalists...

964
01:31:53,321 --> 01:31:55,641
...as "class capitulationism"!

965
01:31:55,641 --> 01:32:00,641
Down with Zhang Mutao!

966
01:32:13,721 --> 01:32:14,721
Ding Ling!

967
01:32:16,321 --> 01:32:18,121
- Xiao Jun!
- It is you

968
01:32:18,441 --> 01:32:21,041
- I hardly recognized you!
- Long time no see!

969
01:32:21,761 --> 01:32:22,601
Xiao Hong!

970
01:32:22,601 --> 01:32:23,641
Ding Ling is here!

971
01:32:25,121 --> 01:32:25,961
- Take a rest,
- Wait a moment

972
01:32:25,961 --> 01:32:27,521
everyone, and wait for orders!

973
01:32:27,521 --> 01:32:28,521
Dismiss!

974
01:32:29,641 --> 01:32:30,881
Thank you

975
01:32:33,001 --> 01:32:34,281
You must be Xiao Hong!

976
01:32:38,001 --> 01:32:39,041
Hello

977
01:32:39,041 --> 01:32:40,081
Ding Ling

978
01:32:41,281 --> 01:32:42,281
Hello

979
01:32:45,041 --> 01:32:48,161
Let's go inside, come on

980
01:32:50,601 --> 01:32:53,001
Don't say that, don't say that...

981
01:32:53,001 --> 01:32:54,361
I'll stop here!

982
01:32:55,601 --> 01:32:57,121
Don't say that, don't say that...

983
01:32:57,121 --> 01:32:57,721
Are you hungry

984
01:32:57,721 --> 01:33:01,881
<i>"It was early spring when I met Xiao Hong"</i>

985
01:33:02,761 --> 01:33:04,841
<i>"It was still cold in Shanxi at the time"</i>

986
01:33:04,841 --> 01:33:07,041
<i>"I'd been in the army for a long time..."</i>

987
01:33:07,041 --> 01:33:08,961
<i>"...so I was used to hardship"</i>

988
01:33:09,241 --> 01:33:11,441
<i>”When I saw her pale face...</i> ”

989
01:33:11,801 --> 01:33:13,761
<i>"Her determined lips..."</i>

990
01:33:14,481 --> 01:33:18,001
<i>”Her agile manner, her nervous laughter...</i> ”

991
01:33:18,961 --> 01:33:20,841
<i>felt she was special"</i>

992
01:33:21,321 --> 01:33:23,321
<i>I thought back to my own youth</i>

993
01:33:26,561 --> 01:33:29,841
<i>"But her talk was natural and direct"</i>

994
01:33:30,761 --> 01:33:33,881
<i>"I felt it strange that she,
as a writer..."</i>

995
01:33:33,881 --> 01:33:36,001
<i>"...seemed so naive"</i>

996
01:33:36,761 --> 01:33:40,281
<i>"Maybe women are unashamed
to appear ingenuous”</i>

997
01:33:40,841 --> 01:33:42,081
<i>"And that's why</i>

998
01:33:42,081 --> 01:33:45,241
<i>she seemed so naive and vulnerable"</i>

999
01:33:50,121 --> 01:33:52,001
<i>"But we got along very well"</i>

1000
01:33:52,361 --> 01:33:55,041
<i>"She was forthright"</i>

1001
01:33:55,761 --> 01:33:58,281
<i>"We sang together heartily..."</i>

1002
01:33:58,841 --> 01:34:01,561
<i>"...and talked into the night"</i>

1003
01:34:02,561 --> 01:34:03,841
When I was in Yan'an...

1004
01:34:04,241 --> 01:34:07,081
...I helped collect material about
the Red Army

1005
01:34:08,281 --> 01:34:10,841
Now I'm editing

1006
01:34:11,881 --> 01:34:15,161
a history of the Long March

1007
01:34:15,161 --> 01:34:16,561
Based on accounts by the soldiers themselves

1008
01:34:17,361 --> 01:34:18,881
It's called Our Story

1009
01:34:20,521 --> 01:34:23,481
Every day I go through testimonies...

1010
01:34:23,481 --> 01:34:25,961
...written on all kinds of paper,
in all colors

1011
01:34:26,081 --> 01:34:28,881
They describe heart-warming actions,
fired by a great spirit

1012
01:34:29,281 --> 01:34:30,921
It's deeply moving

1013
01:34:32,401 --> 01:34:36,681
I conclude that writing skills alone...

1014
01:34:36,681 --> 01:34:39,121
...aren't enough to achieve great work

1015
01:34:39,921 --> 01:34:42,161
While I was writing my first novel...

1016
01:34:42,361 --> 01:34:45,001
...I felt two opposing forces at war inside me

1017
01:34:46,401 --> 01:34:48,961
My blood was telling me I was a writer

1018
01:34:48,961 --> 01:34:52,241
But my soul was filled
with the passion of a warrior

1019
01:34:53,401 --> 01:34:54,641
When I reached the Red Army base in Yan'an...

1020
01:34:55,841 --> 01:34:57,881
...I decided to give up writing

1021
01:34:58,321 --> 01:34:59,841
I think my great work will be

1022
01:34:59,841 --> 01:35:03,361
my actual life and my fighting!

1023
01:35:06,161 --> 01:35:08,161
So the old Ding Ling died...

1024
01:35:09,321 --> 01:35:11,721
...and a new Ding Ling was born

1025
01:35:13,241 --> 01:35:14,281
Is that it?

1026
01:35:15,401 --> 01:35:17,441
I've written in my diary that...

1027
01:35:18,681 --> 01:35:21,521
...when a great mission confronts you...

1028
01:35:21,921 --> 01:35:23,881
...you must forget your own insignificance

1029
01:35:44,281 --> 01:35:47,681
We stayed in the Revolutionary University
for only 20 days

1030
01:35:47,681 --> 01:35:51,761
The Japanese Army started shelling Linfen

1031
01:35:52,001 --> 01:35:55,121
The university decided the writers
should be evacuated

1032
01:35:55,121 --> 01:35:56,281
Those willing to stay

1033
01:35:56,281 --> 01:35:58,801
would retreat with the university staff

1034
01:35:58,801 --> 01:36:00,161
The others

1035
01:36:00,161 --> 01:36:03,081
would leave for Xi'an

1036
01:36:03,321 --> 01:36:05,001
Xiao Hong and Xiao Jun disagreed

1037
01:36:05,001 --> 01:36:08,161
about which group to follow

1038
01:36:08,481 --> 01:36:09,521
I've thought it through...

1039
01:36:09,761 --> 01:36:11,121
I'm going to stay and form a guerrilla unit

1040
01:36:11,681 --> 01:36:14,321
What about me?

1041
01:36:14,521 --> 01:36:15,521
You know that

1042
01:36:15,521 --> 01:36:17,681
all I want is a peaceful situation to write in

1043
01:36:17,681 --> 01:36:19,481
You know that this is
what I've always longed for

1044
01:36:19,481 --> 01:36:21,801
Even back in Harbin,
I wanted to join a guerrilla war

1045
01:36:22,161 --> 01:36:23,841
I'm not content to just be a writer

1046
01:36:24,081 --> 01:36:25,121
It's not my goal in life!

1047
01:36:25,121 --> 01:36:26,161
San Lang

1048
01:36:29,721 --> 01:36:31,601
I know I won't live long

1049
01:36:33,361 --> 01:36:36,201
I don't want to go on suffering

1050
01:36:36,201 --> 01:36:37,441
all these hardships

1051
01:36:37,441 --> 01:36:38,481
San Lang!

1052
01:36:46,881 --> 01:36:49,321
Many of those who die in battle have talents!

1053
01:36:49,681 --> 01:36:51,801
We're all fighting for liberation

1054
01:36:52,121 --> 01:36:54,481
Why should some preserve their talent

1055
01:36:54,481 --> 01:36:55,961
while others die?

1056
01:36:56,081 --> 01:36:58,961
Each contributes what he is best able to

1057
01:36:59,161 --> 01:37:00,681
You're forgetting your duty as a writer!

1058
01:37:02,801 --> 01:37:05,401
You're being willfully blind!

1059
01:37:05,961 --> 01:37:07,441
I haven't forgotten anything!

1060
01:37:09,321 --> 01:37:11,281
Let's go our separate ways

1061
01:37:12,081 --> 01:37:13,481
If I die...

1062
01:37:14,241 --> 01:37:15,841
I don't think I'll die,

1063
01:37:17,361 --> 01:37:18,761
Some day we'll see each other again

1064
01:37:19,361 --> 01:37:21,001
And can be together

1065
01:37:21,001 --> 01:37:22,201
But if we don't

1066
01:37:23,801 --> 01:37:25,321
we can make it a permanent break

1067
01:37:34,561 --> 01:37:35,601
All right

1068
01:37:45,681 --> 01:37:46,921
You aren't sleeping?

1069
01:37:47,361 --> 01:37:48,441
Soon

1070
01:38:00,241 --> 01:38:01,401
Aren't you asleep yet?

1071
01:38:04,521 --> 01:38:06,561
Haven't you two finished?

1072
01:38:06,561 --> 01:38:08,721
I'm really tired of your arguments

1073
01:38:10,961 --> 01:38:12,481
It's nothing to joke about

1074
01:38:13,481 --> 01:38:17,001
These arguments make us so unhappy

1075
01:38:20,201 --> 01:38:21,961
It's better that we go our separate ways

1076
01:38:26,721 --> 01:38:28,241
Never mind

1077
01:38:28,241 --> 01:38:30,241
I'll sleep outside

1078
01:38:30,401 --> 01:38:31,761
You two make up

1079
01:38:31,761 --> 01:38:34,041
- We're moving out tomorrow!
- Ding Ling!

1080
01:38:34,041 --> 01:38:35,761
Don't come out

1081
01:38:35,761 --> 01:38:37,241
We're all men out here!

1082
01:38:37,241 --> 01:38:39,001
What does it matter!

1083
01:38:39,921 --> 01:38:41,001
Don't go out

1084
01:38:59,961 --> 01:39:01,361
I won't go to Xi'an

1085
01:39:04,361 --> 01:39:05,681
I'd rather stay with you

1086
01:39:06,001 --> 01:39:07,561
We can live or die together!

1087
01:39:07,801 --> 01:39:09,641
Or you could come with us

1088
01:39:12,041 --> 01:39:14,201
I won't rest easy if you stay here alone

1089
01:39:14,441 --> 01:39:16,321
I know your temper

1090
01:39:17,001 --> 01:39:18,201
Don't be silly

1091
01:39:20,001 --> 01:39:21,321
You all leave first

1092
01:39:22,521 --> 01:39:25,401
If nothing changes here, you can come back

1093
01:39:25,401 --> 01:39:26,761
It'll be the same as before

1094
01:39:28,041 --> 01:39:29,081
Xiao Jun...

1095
01:39:29,961 --> 01:39:32,721
Don't make Xiao Hong so anxious

1096
01:39:33,601 --> 01:39:35,161
He's stronger than us

1097
01:39:35,601 --> 01:39:37,201
He fights well

1098
01:39:37,361 --> 01:39:39,121
He runs fast

1099
01:39:39,721 --> 01:39:41,201
He should stay

1100
01:39:41,881 --> 01:39:43,721
You're not weak yourself!

1101
01:39:45,241 --> 01:39:47,121
Why don't you stay?

1102
01:39:48,321 --> 01:39:50,521
How can we compare with Xiao Jun?

1103
01:39:50,961 --> 01:39:53,121
It's his chance to serve the country

1104
01:39:53,401 --> 01:39:54,841
What about you? Duanmu,

1105
01:39:56,041 --> 01:39:57,321
why don't you stay too?

1106
01:39:58,281 --> 01:39:59,761
Stay here and work with me

1107
01:39:59,961 --> 01:40:01,201
Then I won't be lonely

1108
01:40:01,401 --> 01:40:02,921
There are many students here to teach

1109
01:40:03,481 --> 01:40:06,001
No, I'd better go to Xi'an

1110
01:40:06,801 --> 01:40:09,681
I'd rather not die in battle

1111
01:40:15,601 --> 01:40:16,681
Don't worry

1112
01:40:17,441 --> 01:40:20,121
I've survived a lot already

1113
01:40:20,961 --> 01:40:22,761
But that was then!

1114
01:40:23,841 --> 01:40:25,281
Things are different now!

1115
01:40:26,401 --> 01:40:28,641
You've never listened to me!

1116
01:40:35,761 --> 01:40:37,321
Let him go

1117
01:40:38,281 --> 01:40:39,761
He's a capable man

1118
01:40:39,881 --> 01:40:41,481
He can look after himself

1119
01:40:42,761 --> 01:40:44,361
You just love him too much

1120
01:40:45,801 --> 01:40:49,521
You'll just make the man you love feel bad

1121
01:40:53,241 --> 01:40:54,601
I've had enough!

1122
01:40:54,601 --> 01:40:56,481
The wind and the dust!

1123
01:40:58,721 --> 01:41:00,721
My nose and ears always filthy!

1124
01:41:06,441 --> 01:41:08,961
You can always shut yourself away
indoors to write...

1125
01:41:09,641 --> 01:41:10,961
Are you serious?

1126
01:41:12,401 --> 01:41:14,041
What exactly are you trying to tell me?

1127
01:41:19,641 --> 01:41:20,841
Nothing

1128
01:41:21,401 --> 01:41:22,601
It's still about Xiao Hong

1129
01:41:23,841 --> 01:41:24,681
I know

1130
01:41:24,681 --> 01:41:26,401
Take care of Xiao Hong!

1131
01:41:26,401 --> 01:41:27,881
You've said it a hundred times

1132
01:41:27,881 --> 01:41:28,961
Yes...

1133
01:41:29,601 --> 01:41:31,201
Her health is fragile

1134
01:41:31,441 --> 01:41:33,321
And she can't cope

1135
01:41:34,481 --> 01:41:36,721
When you reach Xi'an, if she want

1136
01:41:36,721 --> 01:41:38,681
try to send her to Yan'an

1137
01:41:39,161 --> 01:41:41,401
Otherwise, keep her in your troupe

1138
01:41:41,401 --> 01:41:43,961
Just don't leave her alone

1139
01:41:45,361 --> 01:41:48,441
Anyway, she and I will meet again

1140
01:41:48,441 --> 01:41:49,641
Right!

1141
01:41:50,081 --> 01:41:52,401
So why were you so callous yesterday?

1142
01:41:52,401 --> 01:41:54,161
Now you're all care and concern!

1143
01:42:05,721 --> 01:42:06,841
Comrades,

1144
01:42:07,041 --> 01:42:09,561
let's sing a song for Xiao Jun!

1145
01:42:09,561 --> 01:42:11,081
Good!

1146
01:42:50,361 --> 01:42:51,561
Have you eaten?

1147
01:42:51,561 --> 01:42:53,041
Not yet, I was about to

1148
01:42:53,041 --> 01:42:53,961
And you?

1149
01:42:54,521 --> 01:42:55,601
I've eaten

1150
01:42:55,601 --> 01:42:56,761
But I'll treat you

1151
01:42:57,801 --> 01:42:59,361
No need for that

1152
01:42:59,641 --> 01:43:01,161
I must treat you tonight

1153
01:43:01,161 --> 01:43:02,761
I insist

1154
01:43:07,241 --> 01:43:08,601
Can you do me a favor?

1155
01:43:10,721 --> 01:43:11,881
What?

1156
01:43:14,681 --> 01:43:15,921
Look...

1157
01:43:15,921 --> 01:43:17,001
You like this?

1158
01:43:20,161 --> 01:43:22,001
I've kept it for a couple of years

1159
01:43:26,681 --> 01:43:29,041
Today, Duanmu asked me to give it to him

1160
01:43:29,601 --> 01:43:31,241
I told him to wait

1161
01:43:34,601 --> 01:43:35,921
I'm going to hide it...

1162
01:43:35,921 --> 01:43:37,841
...and tell him I gave it to you

1163
01:43:40,201 --> 01:43:41,561
If he asks,

1164
01:43:43,081 --> 01:43:45,001
will you tell him you have it?

1165
01:43:46,761 --> 01:43:49,921
What does the stick symbolize?

1166
01:43:52,001 --> 01:43:54,001
What are you thinking?

1167
01:43:57,201 --> 01:43:59,881
I've told you I find Duanmu tiresome

1168
01:44:00,281 --> 01:44:02,841
He's soft, cowardly...

1169
01:44:03,481 --> 01:44:06,881
You've also said that you have a spirit
of self-sacrifice

1170
01:44:07,041 --> 01:44:08,921
That's only where Xiao Jun is concerned!

1171
01:44:12,001 --> 01:44:15,801
Xiao Jun says you're easily fooled

1172
01:44:15,801 --> 01:44:17,801
Not when it really matters

1173
01:44:24,401 --> 01:44:27,561
Xiao Hong, let's go to Yan'an together

1174
01:44:30,201 --> 01:44:31,281
I don't think so

1175
01:44:31,281 --> 01:44:32,361
Why not?

1176
01:44:32,681 --> 01:44:34,681
I might meet Xiao Jun there

1177
01:44:35,001 --> 01:44:36,601
I doubt it

1178
01:44:36,601 --> 01:44:38,681
His temperament won't take him there

1179
01:44:38,681 --> 01:44:42,201
He must have joined the guerrillas by now

1180
01:44:50,841 --> 01:44:52,281
I love Xiao Jun

1181
01:44:53,601 --> 01:44:55,001
Even now

1182
01:44:59,041 --> 01:45:01,281
He's an excellent writer

1183
01:45:02,761 --> 01:45:05,241
We've battled many hardships together

1184
01:45:08,441 --> 01:45:09,681
But...

1185
01:45:13,041 --> 01:45:18,321
To be his wife would be to suffer too much

1186
01:45:22,841 --> 01:45:23,961
Xiao Hong...

1187
01:45:24,801 --> 01:45:29,161
You've written <i>The Field of Life and Death</i>
and <i>Market Street</i>

1188
01:45:30,561 --> 01:45:33,441
You have to consider
your position in literature

1189
01:45:40,961 --> 01:45:42,801
You must fly high...

1190
01:45:43,641 --> 01:45:48,561
The higher, the better...

1191
01:46:08,201 --> 01:46:12,881
The Tang Dynasty...Preface...

1192
01:46:19,201 --> 01:46:21,481
This is the
<i>Preface to the Three Sacred Doctrines</i>

1193
01:46:22,201 --> 01:46:25,241
As written by the Buddhist monk Huairen

1194
01:46:25,241 --> 01:46:26,761
He used characters copied

1195
01:46:26,761 --> 01:46:28,881
from Wang Xizhi's writings

1196
01:46:30,241 --> 01:46:31,721
It contains

1197
01:46:32,241 --> 01:46:38,681
a preface to Xuanzang's translations
of Buddhist sutras

1198
01:46:39,121 --> 01:46:42,361
Also an essay by Prince Li

1199
01:46:43,521 --> 01:46:47,441
and Xuanzang's note of gratitude

1200
01:46:47,561 --> 01:46:49,841
The entire collection is known as the Preface
to the Three Sacred Doctrines

1201
01:46:51,081 --> 01:46:53,761
You've stored up a lot of learning

1202
01:46:54,601 --> 01:46:56,721
I never knew that about you

1203
01:46:58,281 --> 01:47:00,001
I used to study history

1204
01:47:00,001 --> 01:47:01,401
It's nothing special

1205
01:47:03,081 --> 01:47:06,881
It's a real shame
that I know so little about history

1206
01:47:07,841 --> 01:47:09,121
To show my appreciation...

1207
01:47:09,121 --> 01:47:10,481
...I'll treat you to cold noodles tonight

1208
01:47:13,321 --> 01:47:15,841
Since you're so modest, I should treat you

1209
01:47:40,441 --> 01:47:41,521
Look!

1210
01:47:42,481 --> 01:47:45,401
The light from the torch...
Isn't it like a jellyfish?

1211
01:47:49,921 --> 01:47:50,961
Yes

1212
01:48:07,881 --> 01:48:11,321
Ding Ling and I went to Yan'an for ten days

1213
01:48:11,641 --> 01:48:14,281
We brought someone back with us

1214
01:48:21,081 --> 01:48:22,121
We're there!

1215
01:48:22,721 --> 01:48:24,161
We're back!

1216
01:48:25,121 --> 01:48:26,401
Commander Ding is back!

1217
01:48:26,841 --> 01:48:28,201
Hello, everyone!

1218
01:48:33,521 --> 01:48:35,281
How's everything? All right?

1219
01:49:34,801 --> 01:49:36,881
If anything happens,

1220
01:49:36,881 --> 01:49:38,361
please help!

1221
01:49:53,321 --> 01:49:55,441
Dust yourself down first!

1222
01:49:55,441 --> 01:49:57,321
Then me second!

1223
01:49:57,761 --> 01:49:58,801
Understand?

1224
01:50:00,081 --> 01:50:01,121
Yes

1225
01:50:01,641 --> 01:50:02,721
Sure?

1226
01:50:07,481 --> 01:50:08,521
Then go!

1227
01:50:15,761 --> 01:50:18,681
Xiao Hong and Xiao Jun broke up

1228
01:50:20,521 --> 01:50:24,721
What exactly happened remains unknown
to outsiders

1229
01:50:26,041 --> 01:50:28,081
The three parties involved...

1230
01:50:28,361 --> 01:50:29,961
...give conflicting accounts

1231
01:50:31,281 --> 01:50:33,281
In old age, Xiao Jun's version
was like this...

1232
01:50:43,361 --> 01:50:44,561
San Lang...

1233
01:50:47,721 --> 01:50:49,241
Let's separate for good

1234
01:50:57,281 --> 01:50:58,401
All right

1235
01:51:08,081 --> 01:51:10,241
<i>And in old age, Duanmu's version was...</i>

1236
01:51:43,881 --> 01:51:44,921
Xiao Hong...

1237
01:51:45,481 --> 01:51:47,441
I'll marry Ding Ling
You can marry Duanmu

1238
01:51:47,441 --> 01:51:48,721
What are you talking about?

1239
01:51:51,281 --> 01:51:52,921
I don't care who you marry

1240
01:51:53,881 --> 01:51:57,761
My marriage is none of your business!

1241
01:51:58,041 --> 01:52:00,001
You're too arrogant!
What do you take us for?

1242
01:52:03,841 --> 01:52:05,521
I'm trying to do you a favor

1243
01:52:07,041 --> 01:52:10,121
Xiao Jun, don't insult us!

1244
01:52:10,761 --> 01:52:13,041
Is Xiao Hong an object without feelings?

1245
01:52:16,201 --> 01:52:17,841
Look at yourself!

1246
01:52:21,961 --> 01:52:23,321
Get out!

1247
01:52:23,321 --> 01:52:24,521
Xiao Jun,

1248
01:52:26,761 --> 01:52:27,721
let's talk outside

1249
01:52:35,161 --> 01:52:37,921
<i>Given what had happened...</i>

1250
01:52:38,201 --> 01:52:41,481
<i>...I had to make known</i>

1251
01:52:41,481 --> 01:52:45,441
<i>my relationship with Xiao Hong</i>

1252
01:53:30,081 --> 01:53:31,761
I've broken up with Xiao Jun

1253
01:53:33,361 --> 01:53:35,561
I've returned all his letters

1254
01:53:35,761 --> 01:53:37,081
I asked for mine back...

1255
01:53:39,161 --> 01:53:40,521
...but he refused

1256
01:53:42,761 --> 01:53:45,641
He's stronger than me, so I didn't manage...

1257
01:53:48,801 --> 01:53:50,161
...to get them back

1258
01:53:57,441 --> 01:53:59,641
So now you're free

1259
01:54:07,281 --> 01:54:08,921
I have something to tell you

1260
01:54:15,921 --> 01:54:17,521
I'm pregnant with Xiao Jun's child

1261
01:54:20,041 --> 01:54:21,241
Child?

1262
01:54:21,641 --> 01:54:22,801
Four months

1263
01:54:28,281 --> 01:54:29,481
Does he know?

1264
01:54:31,881 --> 01:54:33,281
Of course he does

1265
01:54:33,281 --> 01:54:35,081
And he asked you to marry me?

1266
01:54:41,441 --> 01:54:42,761
That's the kind of man he is

1267
01:54:47,441 --> 01:54:51,761
How could you live with a man like that?

1268
01:54:58,241 --> 01:54:59,681
He thinks I wouldn't dare marry you

1269
01:55:01,361 --> 01:55:03,801
because of the child?

1270
01:55:13,161 --> 01:55:14,321
Come in

1271
01:55:17,801 --> 01:55:18,761
Sit

1272
01:55:21,001 --> 01:55:23,201
I want you to have this

1273
01:55:24,121 --> 01:55:25,521
It's a trophy...

1274
01:55:25,521 --> 01:55:26,921
...captured from the Japanese

1275
01:55:30,521 --> 01:55:33,241
I have nothing to give you

1276
01:55:34,561 --> 01:55:36,881
The best gift is knowing you

1277
01:55:43,561 --> 01:55:44,801
Take care!

1278
01:55:52,761 --> 01:55:55,641
<i>"We spent the whole spring in Xi'an"</i>

1279
01:55:56,521 --> 01:55:58,121
<i>"We drank our fill..."</i>

1280
01:55:58,561 --> 01:56:00,961
<i>”...and spent evenings
in the wind and rain"</i>

1281
01:56:02,081 --> 01:56:04,561
<i>"And yet, now that I think back..."</i>

1282
01:56:04,561 --> 01:56:06,641
<i>"...we didn't talk that much"</i>

1283
01:56:07,561 --> 01:56:10,801
<i>"There are few people"</i>

1284
01:56:11,081 --> 01:56:15,081
<i>"you can talk with freely"</i>

1285
01:56:16,761 --> 01:56:18,481
<i>"Since we said our goodbyes..."</i>

1286
01:56:18,601 --> 01:56:20,641
<i>"...I've never had a letter from Xiao Hong"</i>

1287
01:56:21,641 --> 01:56:23,601
<i>"Duanmu has sent several"</i>

1288
01:56:24,361 --> 01:56:28,401
<i>"The last one arrived
before Hong Kong fell to the Japanese"</i>

1289
01:56:38,721 --> 01:56:42,761
I hear Xiao Hong's ashes
are buried in Repulse Bay

1290
01:56:50,921 --> 01:56:52,241
Do you remember?

1291
01:56:53,801 --> 01:56:55,321
You once told me...

1292
01:56:56,441 --> 01:56:58,481
...that Xiao Hong would die young

1293
01:57:05,681 --> 01:57:08,081
Now your premonition has come true

1294
01:57:23,201 --> 01:57:25,481
This is my essay...

1295
01:57:25,961 --> 01:57:27,721
Remembering Xiao Hong

1296
01:57:49,281 --> 01:57:51,041
After Xiao Hong and Xiao Jun broke up...

1297
01:57:51,561 --> 01:57:53,121
...they never saw each other again

1298
01:57:53,681 --> 01:57:57,041
That same year, in April 1938...

1299
01:57:57,641 --> 01:58:00,281
...Xiao Hong and Duanmu went back to Wuhan

1300
01:58:00,641 --> 01:58:03,681
Xiao Jun went to Yan'an...

1301
01:58:04,121 --> 01:58:06,041
...and then to Xinjiang,

1302
01:58:06,121 --> 01:58:08,201
to fight the Japanese

1303
01:58:09,521 --> 01:58:11,241
As he passed through Lanzhou...

1304
01:58:11,801 --> 01:58:13,001
...he met Wang Defen

1305
01:58:13,681 --> 01:58:16,001
He married her that year

1306
01:58:16,801 --> 01:58:18,321
And they lived together ever after

1307
01:58:18,561 --> 01:58:21,681
They had eight children in all

1308
01:58:39,921 --> 01:58:41,521
I parted from Xiao Jun

1309
01:58:41,801 --> 01:58:43,561
And he went to fight as a guerrilla

1310
01:58:43,561 --> 01:58:47,201
Now I live with him...

1311
01:58:55,001 --> 01:58:56,601
As a woman...

1312
01:58:56,601 --> 01:58:58,921
...you suffered humiliations

1313
01:58:59,121 --> 01:59:00,641
You have the right to do what you want

1314
01:59:01,121 --> 01:59:03,681
It shows how strong you are

1315
01:59:04,801 --> 01:59:06,201
As your friends...

1316
01:59:06,201 --> 01:59:09,241
...we're happy to see you
leave your sufferings behind

1317
01:59:10,521 --> 01:59:12,481
But why be in such a hurry ?

1318
01:59:12,921 --> 01:59:14,761
Why not calm down a little?

1319
01:59:19,041 --> 01:59:21,441
Did you see Ding Ling in the north-west?

1320
01:59:21,441 --> 01:59:22,521
How is she?

1321
01:59:23,961 --> 01:59:25,681
We are very different people

1322
01:59:26,841 --> 01:59:28,281
Why didn't you go to Yan'an?

1323
01:59:29,361 --> 01:59:31,641
All I want is to write in peace

1324
01:59:32,281 --> 01:59:34,441
I don't want to be a Party member

1325
01:59:35,161 --> 01:59:38,721
I know nothing about politics,

1326
01:59:40,521 --> 01:59:41,681
nothing at all

1327
01:59:53,121 --> 01:59:54,401
Please be seated

1328
01:59:57,321 --> 01:59:59,921
Thank you for coming to our wedding

1329
02:00:00,681 --> 02:00:02,281
We prepared it in such a rush

1330
02:00:02,281 --> 02:00:05,361
Please excuse us for the shortcomings

1331
02:00:08,121 --> 02:00:09,361
Duanmu...

1332
02:00:13,361 --> 02:00:15,001
These four red beans symbolize mutual longing

1333
02:00:15,001 --> 02:00:18,041
They were given to me by Mr Lu Xun

1334
02:00:18,801 --> 02:00:22,241
Today, I give them to you...

1335
02:00:23,241 --> 02:00:25,041
...as a token of faith

1336
02:00:27,761 --> 02:00:30,441
<i>I heard there weren't many guests
at the wedding</i>

1337
02:00:30,601 --> 02:00:34,641
<i>Most of them were Duanmu's relatives</i>

1338
02:00:39,961 --> 02:00:43,321
Duanmu and I...

1339
02:00:43,321 --> 02:00:47,161
...had no great romance

1340
02:00:47,441 --> 02:00:51,561
It was not until I'd separated from Xiao Jun...

1341
02:00:51,561 --> 02:00:53,241
...that I found Duanmu

1342
02:00:57,081 --> 02:00:59,481
I do not expect too much from him

1343
02:01:00,481 --> 02:01:03,921
All I want is...

1344
02:01:03,921 --> 02:01:08,281
...to live as an ordinary husband and wife

1345
02:01:10,241 --> 02:01:14,041
No quarrels, no fights...

1346
02:01:14,521 --> 02:01:17,361
No betrayals, no mockery...

1347
02:01:17,921 --> 02:01:21,481
Only mutual understanding

1348
02:01:21,481 --> 02:01:23,801
Only care and kindness between us

1349
02:01:28,801 --> 02:01:34,881
I feel deeply that a woman in my situation...

1350
02:01:34,881 --> 02:01:37,041
...is no position to expect to marry

1351
02:01:39,881 --> 02:01:43,801
But Duanmu made a sacrifice

1352
02:01:45,281 --> 02:01:49,041
And that satisfies me

1353
02:01:53,121 --> 02:01:54,801
I'm deeply grateful

1354
02:02:10,041 --> 02:02:14,841
In June and July of 1938,
the Japanese Army prepared its assault

1355
02:02:15,441 --> 02:02:18,921
The government announced a campaign
to 'Protect Great Wuhan'...

1356
02:02:19,681 --> 02:02:21,081
But people began to abandon the city

1357
02:02:21,081 --> 02:02:24,121
They fled to Chungking

1358
02:02:28,641 --> 02:02:31,081
One rainy day in July...

1359
02:02:31,281 --> 02:02:35,081
...I was crossing the river from Wuchang

1360
02:02:36,041 --> 02:02:37,161
Xiao Hong!

1361
02:02:44,321 --> 02:02:48,601
I didn't expect you to greet me!

1362
02:02:55,321 --> 02:02:56,841
I was just thinking...

1363
02:02:59,641 --> 02:03:01,561
I have no friends of my own

1364
02:03:03,081 --> 02:03:05,081
They're all Xiao Jun's friends

1365
02:03:07,721 --> 02:03:09,281
You all belong to him

1366
02:03:17,201 --> 02:03:18,401
Do you have any plans?

1367
02:03:18,761 --> 02:03:20,001
The situation is getting critical

1368
02:03:20,561 --> 02:03:22,201
Many friends are planning to leave

1369
02:03:22,521 --> 02:03:23,721
Are you going?

1370
02:03:25,761 --> 02:03:26,841
I have tickets to Chungking

1371
02:03:26,841 --> 02:03:28,121
I'm going with Luo Feng

1372
02:03:29,641 --> 02:03:31,561
Let's go together! Shall we?

1373
02:03:36,041 --> 02:03:37,801
Help me get two tickets

1374
02:03:54,081 --> 02:03:56,241
<i>At that time, it wasn't easy to get tickets</i>

1375
02:03:56,801 --> 02:03:58,801
<i>I found one for Xiao Hong</i>

1376
02:03:59,841 --> 02:04:01,201
<i>But on the day...</i>

1377
02:04:01,761 --> 02:04:03,041
<i>...it wasn't Xiao Hong who turned up</i>

1378
02:04:09,761 --> 02:04:11,361
I have tickets!

1379
02:04:13,321 --> 02:04:14,561
Where's Xiao Hong?

1380
02:04:15,401 --> 02:04:16,401
She's not coming

1381
02:04:16,401 --> 02:04:18,001
She'll take a later steamer

1382
02:04:18,001 --> 02:04:20,001
I'm going first to look for a house

1383
02:04:22,121 --> 02:04:23,201
Let's go

1384
02:05:18,241 --> 02:05:19,361
Xi Jin!

1385
02:05:22,801 --> 02:05:23,961
What are you doing here?

1386
02:05:24,921 --> 02:05:26,921
I've come to stay here

1387
02:05:29,961 --> 02:05:31,081
And Duanmu?

1388
02:05:31,641 --> 02:05:33,041
He's gone to Chungking

1389
02:05:33,281 --> 02:05:34,561
Why didn't he take you?

1390
02:05:34,561 --> 02:05:36,201
I didn't need taking

1391
02:05:40,401 --> 02:05:41,361
Sit down

1392
02:05:46,041 --> 02:05:47,441
You can't stay here

1393
02:05:48,121 --> 02:05:49,601
Listen...I'll explain

1394
02:05:49,601 --> 02:05:50,761
The two upstairs rooms are for

1395
02:05:50,761 --> 02:05:52,121
Zhao Ximeng

1396
02:05:52,121 --> 02:05:53,401
and his family

1397
02:05:53,401 --> 02:05:54,401
There are two rooms down here

1398
02:05:54,401 --> 02:05:56,521
Three people are in one of them...

1399
02:05:56,521 --> 02:05:58,081
...all crammed into one bed

1400
02:05:58,801 --> 02:06:00,801
The other is this office

1401
02:06:00,801 --> 02:06:02,641
It's crowded and noisy here
You can't stay here

1402
02:06:02,641 --> 02:06:03,881
And in your condition...

1403
02:06:03,881 --> 02:06:05,081
I insist

1404
02:06:05,921 --> 02:06:07,041
Look...

1405
02:06:07,641 --> 02:06:09,121
I can sleep here

1406
02:06:09,121 --> 02:06:11,641
- No, you can't!
- I can spread some matting here

1407
02:06:11,641 --> 02:06:13,241
- You can't live here!
- Xi Jin!

1408
02:06:13,241 --> 02:06:14,361
No, you can't live here!

1409
02:06:14,361 --> 02:06:15,921
People come and go

1410
02:06:15,921 --> 02:06:16,641
Apart from anything else...

1411
02:06:16,641 --> 02:06:19,081
...you'd be in their way

1412
02:06:20,401 --> 02:06:21,561
Xi Jin!

1413
02:06:21,881 --> 02:06:23,041
Thank you!

1414
02:06:27,561 --> 02:06:28,641
That's how...

1415
02:06:29,561 --> 02:06:31,201
...Xiao Hong

1416
02:06:31,201 --> 02:06:34,321
came to live in our office

1417
02:06:36,401 --> 02:06:40,641
A pregnant woman stretched out on our floor

1418
02:06:42,841 --> 02:06:47,241
As to why Duanmu went first
and left her behind...

1419
02:06:48,081 --> 02:06:49,561
...she didn't say, and I didn't ask

1420
02:07:15,081 --> 02:07:16,161
Xi Jin!

1421
02:07:16,681 --> 02:07:18,641
There's a new café!

1422
02:07:18,641 --> 02:07:20,081
Treat us to iced drinks!

1423
02:07:20,081 --> 02:07:21,561
It's really hot today

1424
02:07:23,681 --> 02:07:25,161
I'm broke!

1425
02:07:25,801 --> 02:07:27,201
If anyone treats, I'll go!

1426
02:07:28,681 --> 02:07:29,961
I have money!

1427
02:07:31,721 --> 02:07:33,241
I have money!

1428
02:07:34,801 --> 02:07:35,961
My treat!

1429
02:07:35,961 --> 02:07:36,761
My treat

1430
02:07:36,761 --> 02:07:38,681
Great!

1431
02:07:44,881 --> 02:07:45,881
You're so late

1432
02:07:45,881 --> 02:07:46,921
Who's treating?

1433
02:07:46,921 --> 02:07:47,921
Xiao Hong...

1434
02:07:48,081 --> 02:07:49,241
Order anything!

1435
02:07:50,921 --> 02:07:52,801
- Miss!
- Here!

1436
02:07:54,601 --> 02:07:55,801
What would you like?

1437
02:07:57,241 --> 02:07:58,401
Whatever you want

1438
02:07:58,401 --> 02:07:59,361
A glass of beer

1439
02:07:59,361 --> 02:08:00,241
All right

1440
02:08:00,241 --> 02:08:01,161
I'll have a beer too

1441
02:08:01,161 --> 02:08:02,401
Shaved ice for me, please

1442
02:08:02,401 --> 02:08:04,161
Help yourself

1443
02:08:05,281 --> 02:08:07,121
your change,$2.7

1444
02:08:07,121 --> 02:08:08,441
Never mind, keep it

1445
02:08:08,801 --> 02:08:09,961
Thank you

1446
02:08:09,961 --> 02:08:11,881
Cheers

1447
02:08:29,601 --> 02:08:30,521
Are you that rich?

1448
02:08:30,521 --> 02:08:32,481
Throwing money around like that!

1449
02:08:32,721 --> 02:08:33,961
Why are you laughing?

1450
02:08:36,521 --> 02:08:38,961
It's all I have, anyway...
it wouldn't help much

1451
02:08:39,081 --> 02:08:40,641
Better spend it generously

1452
02:08:40,841 --> 02:08:41,921
Nonsense!

1453
02:08:41,921 --> 02:08:44,041
Generosity! It made no sense!

1454
02:08:44,241 --> 02:08:45,561
The nation's in crisis

1455
02:08:46,361 --> 02:08:47,721
There's chaos everywhere

1456
02:08:47,921 --> 02:08:49,521
We don't know when Wuhan will fall

1457
02:08:50,161 --> 02:08:51,641
The Japanese Army

1458
02:08:51,641 --> 02:08:53,801
is biding its time

1459
02:08:53,801 --> 02:08:55,001
What will we do if they launch an attack?

1460
02:08:55,001 --> 02:08:57,921
Think about it! What will you do?

1461
02:08:57,921 --> 02:09:00,881
Keeping the change
would have made no difference!

1462
02:09:01,481 --> 02:09:03,401
All right
You have your way, and I have mine

1463
02:09:05,321 --> 02:09:09,401
When crisis hits, I might be across the river

1464
02:09:09,401 --> 02:09:10,841
Unable to help you!

1465
02:09:11,681 --> 02:09:15,641
If that happens, don't worry

1466
02:09:15,921 --> 02:09:18,041
Small change wouldn't help anyway

1467
02:09:20,801 --> 02:09:21,841
Stop blaming me

1468
02:09:27,201 --> 02:09:28,321
You go back first

1469
02:09:28,801 --> 02:09:30,201
There's something I must do

1470
02:09:34,361 --> 02:09:36,921
Don't ask for the money back!

1471
02:10:02,281 --> 02:10:03,721
Get up, get up!

1472
02:10:04,801 --> 02:10:06,401
You finally come back

1473
02:10:06,401 --> 02:10:07,481
Where did you go?

1474
02:10:10,161 --> 02:10:11,721
I borrowed $150 for you

1475
02:10:12,841 --> 02:10:13,961
Listen carefully...

1476
02:10:13,961 --> 02:10:15,361
This is not a gift, it's a loan

1477
02:10:16,241 --> 02:10:18,481
I borrowed $100 from the Life Bookshop

1478
02:10:18,481 --> 02:10:20,561
And another $50 from the Reading Press

1479
02:10:21,361 --> 02:10:24,201
I told them I was borrowing it for you

1480
02:10:24,801 --> 02:10:26,121
And promised you would pay it back

1481
02:10:26,121 --> 02:10:27,721
If you don't, then I will

1482
02:10:32,801 --> 02:10:33,921
What now?

1483
02:10:35,921 --> 02:10:37,201
Keep it

1484
02:10:37,721 --> 02:10:39,041
You'll need it

1485
02:10:39,761 --> 02:10:41,041
No more treating

1486
02:10:47,121 --> 02:10:48,281
I was still worried

1487
02:10:49,121 --> 02:10:51,081
So I asked my colleague Naichao for advice

1488
02:10:51,921 --> 02:10:53,521
I told him

1489
02:10:54,121 --> 02:10:56,041
we couldn't leave Xiao Hong alone in Wuhan

1490
02:10:56,321 --> 02:10:57,361
We had to get her away

1491
02:10:58,601 --> 02:10:59,881
Naichao had an answer

1492
02:11:00,081 --> 02:11:01,441
He said his wife was leaving for Chungking

1493
02:11:01,441 --> 02:11:02,881
She could take Xiao Hong
I said ok

1494
02:11:04,161 --> 02:11:07,121
Not long after,

1495
02:11:07,881 --> 02:11:09,161
I was sent to Canton to start a journal

1496
02:11:09,161 --> 02:11:10,201
I had to leave

1497
02:11:11,801 --> 02:11:15,921
At noon that day,
Xiao Hong and other friends...

1498
02:11:15,921 --> 02:11:17,641
...threw a farewell lunch for me

1499
02:11:17,841 --> 02:11:19,201
And then they saw me off at the pier

1500
02:11:41,201 --> 02:11:42,521
After that, I never saw her again

1501
02:13:16,761 --> 02:13:18,081
Thank you!

1502
02:13:18,081 --> 02:13:19,801
I fell and I couldn't get up

1503
02:13:19,841 --> 02:13:20,841
I'm pregnant

1504
02:13:20,841 --> 02:13:22,961
I've been waiting and waiting

1505
02:13:22,961 --> 02:13:24,041
You're very kind

1506
02:13:24,721 --> 02:13:25,961
Thank you!

1507
02:13:28,801 --> 02:13:31,681
Why are you running
around when you're pregnant?

1508
02:13:35,481 --> 02:13:37,081
Going to Chungking

1509
02:13:41,321 --> 02:13:42,721
Are you all right?

1510
02:13:44,441 --> 02:13:45,561
I'm all right

1511
02:13:48,681 --> 02:13:49,681
Thank you...

1512
02:13:51,041 --> 02:13:52,721
I don't know how to thank you...

1513
02:13:53,921 --> 02:13:55,361
I have money...

1514
02:14:12,361 --> 02:14:15,241
Xiao Hong came to see me when
she reached Chungking

1515
02:14:15,721 --> 02:14:19,161
Back then we lived near the city, in Jiangjin

1516
02:14:20,561 --> 02:14:22,241
She wanted to have the child in Jiangjin

1517
02:14:23,481 --> 02:14:25,161
Duanmu wasn't with her

1518
02:14:26,481 --> 02:14:28,721
<i>For the month she stayed with us...</i>

1519
02:14:29,641 --> 02:14:31,161
<i>...she looked pale</i>

1520
02:14:31,601 --> 02:14:32,641
<i>Sickly...</i>

1521
02:14:33,361 --> 02:14:35,081
<i>Her spirits were low</i>

1522
02:14:40,001 --> 02:14:41,801
The landlady has made chicken soup

1523
02:14:41,801 --> 02:14:43,001
Have some!

1524
02:14:44,081 --> 02:14:45,241
Not now...

1525
02:14:46,241 --> 02:14:47,401
I'm not hungry

1526
02:15:02,201 --> 02:15:03,681
Look at him,

1527
02:15:05,521 --> 02:15:07,481
tiny nose, tiny lips...

1528
02:15:07,481 --> 02:15:09,401
He looks just like Xiao Jun!

1529
02:15:16,561 --> 02:15:18,001
Cute little hand

1530
02:15:48,561 --> 02:15:49,761
What's wrong with you?

1531
02:15:51,801 --> 02:15:53,041
Where have you been?

1532
02:15:56,361 --> 02:15:57,561
Where's the baby?

1533
02:15:59,841 --> 02:16:01,041
Where is he?

1534
02:16:02,441 --> 02:16:03,481
Dead

1535
02:16:05,321 --> 02:16:06,481
What?

1536
02:16:08,081 --> 02:16:11,081
He was fine yesterday, how can he be dead?

1537
02:16:12,001 --> 02:16:13,281
I'll get the doctor

1538
02:16:13,281 --> 02:16:15,961
Don't go

1539
02:16:16,761 --> 02:16:20,561
Please don't

1540
02:16:22,001 --> 02:16:23,441
There's no point

1541
02:16:24,081 --> 02:16:26,361
He died of convulsions last night

1542
02:16:30,121 --> 02:16:33,441
Bai Lang...

1543
02:16:33,801 --> 02:16:35,161
I want to be discharged

1544
02:16:35,561 --> 02:16:37,241
Right now. I'm so scared

1545
02:16:37,241 --> 02:16:40,001
There was only one doctor on duty last night

1546
02:16:40,241 --> 02:16:42,961
I'm the only patient left in here

1547
02:16:47,961 --> 02:16:49,361
Take me away

1548
02:16:56,961 --> 02:16:58,961
Bai Lang...l hope you'll always be happy

1549
02:17:02,361 --> 02:17:04,001
You too!

1550
02:17:05,281 --> 02:17:06,361
Me?

1551
02:17:10,001 --> 02:17:11,281
Can I be happy?

1552
02:17:14,201 --> 02:17:18,321
I know my own future

1553
02:17:19,561 --> 02:17:21,321
I'll be lonely all my life

1554
02:18:00,641 --> 02:18:03,281
<i>"Mr Lu Xun was recovering"</i>

1555
02:18:03,561 --> 02:18:06,001
<i>"He sat, smoking, in his reclining chair"</i>

1556
02:18:06,521 --> 02:18:07,841
<i>"That day..."</i>

1557
02:18:07,841 --> 02:18:12,401
<i>was wearing a garish red blouse"</i>

1558
02:18:12,721 --> 02:18:14,521
<i>"Mr Lu Xun said..."</i>

1559
02:18:14,521 --> 02:18:16,521
<i>"The heat is oppressive today"</i>

1560
02:18:16,761 --> 02:18:18,601
<i>"They call this the 'plum rain season'..."</i>

1561
02:18:19,561 --> 02:18:22,561
<i>"He was putting a cigarette"</i>

1562
02:18:22,561 --> 02:18:25,081
<i>"in his cigarette-holder..."</i>

1563
02:18:29,201 --> 02:18:30,321
Mr Lu Xun...

1564
02:18:31,441 --> 02:18:33,721
What do you think of my outfit today?

1565
02:18:39,161 --> 02:18:40,321
Am I pretty

1566
02:18:41,161 --> 02:18:42,761
Not so pretty

1567
02:18:44,161 --> 02:18:45,361
Why not?

1568
02:18:45,801 --> 02:18:49,041
You're wearing the wrong skirt

1569
02:18:50,241 --> 02:18:52,721
There is nothing wrong with a red blouse

1570
02:18:53,401 --> 02:18:55,921
Any color can look good...

1571
02:18:58,001 --> 02:19:00,841
But a red blouse needs a red skirt

1572
02:19:00,841 --> 02:19:03,121
Or a black one

1573
02:19:04,841 --> 02:19:06,201
Miss Xiao!

1574
02:19:07,241 --> 02:19:08,681
Mr Duanmu!

1575
02:19:09,361 --> 02:19:11,041
Miss Xiao!

1576
02:19:11,041 --> 02:19:12,521
Mr Duanmu!

1577
02:19:13,081 --> 02:19:14,121
Mr Jin!

1578
02:19:14,121 --> 02:19:15,201
I've brought them rice

1579
02:19:15,201 --> 02:19:16,281
What should I do?

1580
02:19:16,521 --> 02:19:18,241
They don't live here any more

1581
02:19:18,241 --> 02:19:19,641
Keep the rice for yourself

1582
02:19:19,841 --> 02:19:21,281
How come?

1583
02:19:21,281 --> 02:19:22,521
They've moved to Hong Kong

1584
02:19:38,441 --> 02:19:39,601
Come in

1585
02:19:43,561 --> 02:19:45,241
- Xiao Hong...
- Xiao Hong!

1586
02:19:48,361 --> 02:19:49,961
What a surprise!

1587
02:19:49,961 --> 02:19:51,201
Xiao Gu...

1588
02:19:51,201 --> 02:19:52,401
Look who's here!

1589
02:19:53,201 --> 02:19:54,241
Say "Auntie"

1590
02:19:54,241 --> 02:19:56,201
- He's grown
- Yes

1591
02:19:56,201 --> 02:19:57,321
Thinner,

1592
02:19:58,241 --> 02:19:59,561
Taller too

1593
02:20:00,961 --> 02:20:03,081
Come here...Look at our baby girl

1594
02:20:04,121 --> 02:20:05,841
She put me through it!

1595
02:20:06,401 --> 02:20:08,561
Just as well we didn't abort her in Wuhan

1596
02:20:08,561 --> 02:20:09,921
Or you wouldn't be here now!

1597
02:20:09,921 --> 02:20:11,241
What happened to her forehead?

1598
02:20:11,521 --> 02:20:12,921
It was a rat

1599
02:20:13,441 --> 02:20:15,241
It must have been hungry

1600
02:20:15,241 --> 02:20:18,081
It nibbled her

1601
02:20:18,081 --> 02:20:19,481
It's all right

1602
02:20:23,641 --> 02:20:25,281
She looks so delicate...

1603
02:20:25,281 --> 02:20:26,761
...and pretty, just like you

1604
02:20:26,761 --> 02:20:27,841
Like me?

1605
02:20:27,841 --> 02:20:29,001
Not like her dad!

1606
02:20:30,281 --> 02:20:31,401
Xiao Hong...

1607
02:20:31,401 --> 02:20:33,401
I have something to do, I must go out

1608
02:20:33,401 --> 02:20:34,641
Of course

1609
02:20:34,641 --> 02:20:36,321
I'll take the boy. You go on

1610
02:20:36,321 --> 02:20:38,561
Son, take it with you

1611
02:20:38,561 --> 02:20:39,601
Give it to me

1612
02:20:45,401 --> 02:20:46,481
Bye

1613
02:20:48,001 --> 02:20:49,081
Do sit down

1614
02:20:50,521 --> 02:20:51,761
Such a mess!

1615
02:20:57,841 --> 02:20:58,801
What about your baby?

1616
02:20:58,801 --> 02:21:00,201
It must be big by now

1617
02:21:02,881 --> 02:21:03,921
It died

1618
02:21:05,681 --> 02:21:07,321
Three days after it was born

1619
02:21:08,521 --> 02:21:10,161
How did it die?

1620
02:21:11,881 --> 02:21:13,281
Was it a boy or a girl?

1621
02:21:15,081 --> 02:21:16,321
A boy

1622
02:21:16,321 --> 02:21:17,641
He died of convulsions

1623
02:21:19,361 --> 02:21:22,081
I fell down on the pier in Yichang

1624
02:21:22,921 --> 02:21:24,001
I found myself thinking...

1625
02:21:24,961 --> 02:21:26,401
Child...

1626
02:21:26,921 --> 02:21:28,081
If you want to drop...

1627
02:21:28,721 --> 02:21:30,041
Drop out of my body

1628
02:21:31,401 --> 02:21:33,081
I can't hold on to you

1629
02:21:34,041 --> 02:21:35,601
But he survived that fine

1630
02:21:40,321 --> 02:21:41,721
You've fleshed out a bit

1631
02:21:42,961 --> 02:21:44,441
You look good!

1632
02:21:44,761 --> 02:21:45,881
Really!

1633
02:21:46,281 --> 02:21:48,121
You look beautiful in that dress

1634
02:21:48,121 --> 02:21:51,321
I was stunned when you came in wearing it

1635
02:21:53,201 --> 02:21:55,041
I made it myself

1636
02:21:55,041 --> 02:21:57,321
I bought the cloth, the thread

1637
02:21:57,321 --> 02:21:59,561
and the buttons at the market

1638
02:22:00,401 --> 02:22:01,881
Look

1639
02:22:02,441 --> 02:22:04,761
The result isn't too bad, is it?

1640
02:22:05,121 --> 02:22:06,961
It's elegant, it suits you

1641
02:22:06,961 --> 02:22:08,761
I always said

1642
02:22:08,961 --> 02:22:11,161
you have really good taste

1643
02:22:11,761 --> 02:22:14,321
You can turn any piece of cheap fabric...

1644
02:22:14,441 --> 02:22:16,881
...into the most beautiful dress!

1645
02:22:18,081 --> 02:22:20,201
If you like, I'll make one for you

1646
02:22:20,641 --> 02:22:22,841
I don't have the energy these days

1647
02:22:25,041 --> 02:22:27,241
Hey, I must show you something!

1648
02:22:35,881 --> 02:22:39,361
This came from Xiao Jun , his wedding photo

1649
02:22:56,561 --> 02:22:57,681
I'm going

1650
02:22:58,321 --> 02:22:59,961
Give my best to Hu when he gets back

1651
02:22:59,961 --> 02:23:01,121
Xiao Hong...

1652
02:23:10,321 --> 02:23:12,281
ZHOU JINGWEN magazine publisher

1653
02:23:12,281 --> 02:23:13,161
A year after...

1654
02:23:13,161 --> 02:23:14,681
...they arrived in Hong Kong...

1655
02:23:15,441 --> 02:23:16,761
...Xiao Hong was...

1656
02:23:16,761 --> 02:23:18,081
...diagnosed with tuberculosis

1657
02:23:19,561 --> 02:23:21,361
While she was in the hospital...

1658
02:23:21,361 --> 02:23:23,761
...Duanmu took a call from a stranger

1659
02:23:24,521 --> 02:23:25,921
A man named Luo Binji

1660
02:23:26,681 --> 02:23:28,561
He claimed to be a friend
of Xiao Hong's brother

1661
02:23:30,961 --> 02:23:32,281
He was stuck in a hotel

1662
02:23:32,281 --> 02:23:33,601
Looking for work

1663
02:23:34,081 --> 02:23:35,441
Duanmu turned to me

1664
02:23:37,961 --> 02:23:39,761
You've been home for a few days...

1665
02:23:39,921 --> 02:23:41,441
You should go back to hospital

1666
02:23:43,561 --> 02:23:45,841
This isn't a good environment for you

1667
02:23:46,601 --> 02:23:48,041
Don't be too willful

1668
02:23:49,761 --> 02:23:51,281
I'd rather die than go back

1669
02:23:51,281 --> 02:23:52,401
I was bored stiff there

1670
02:23:52,401 --> 02:23:54,001
They wouldn't even let me write

1671
02:23:55,361 --> 02:23:57,081
It's a matter of priorities

1672
02:24:03,921 --> 02:24:05,161
Mr Zhou...

1673
02:24:09,561 --> 02:24:14,521
I'm not sure I can finish my novel
Ma Bole...

1674
02:24:19,841 --> 02:24:22,721
Can you announce that I'm ill in the magazine?

1675
02:24:23,481 --> 02:24:24,681
As excuse

1676
02:24:26,001 --> 02:24:27,401
A famous woman writer...

1677
02:24:28,921 --> 02:24:31,441
...confined to a shabby, old bed

1678
02:24:32,201 --> 02:24:33,561
The whole scene...

1679
02:24:34,521 --> 02:24:36,121
...made me feel really sad

1680
02:24:40,441 --> 02:24:42,281
Soon after that, without warning...

1681
02:24:42,561 --> 02:24:46,081
...the Pacific War began on December 7th

1682
02:24:47,321 --> 02:24:48,801
By Luo Binji's own account...

1683
02:24:49,561 --> 02:24:52,881
...he was with Xiao Hong in her final days

1684
02:24:56,041 --> 02:24:57,721
Five years later...

1685
02:25:00,081 --> 02:25:02,721
...he was the first
to write a biography of her

1686
02:25:11,641 --> 02:25:14,681
The Japanese began shelling
Hong Kong on December 8th, 1941

1687
02:25:14,681 --> 02:25:17,441
That day I went to say goodbye

1688
02:25:17,441 --> 02:25:18,721
before returning to the mainland

1689
02:25:21,841 --> 02:25:23,121
You're intent on leaving?

1690
02:25:29,041 --> 02:25:30,401
I'll be back soon

1691
02:25:33,561 --> 02:25:35,201
I came to say goodbye

1692
02:25:35,201 --> 02:25:36,561
I'm going back to China

1693
02:25:36,881 --> 02:25:38,841
I have to go...

1694
02:25:38,841 --> 02:25:41,161
to discuss if we should leave too

1695
02:25:41,161 --> 02:25:42,761
Please stay here a while

1696
02:25:42,761 --> 02:25:44,161
I'll be back soon

1697
02:26:07,561 --> 02:26:08,881
I'm so tired...

1698
02:26:11,281 --> 02:26:12,721
Hold my hand

1699
02:26:13,361 --> 02:26:14,721
I want to take a nap

1700
02:26:16,921 --> 02:26:18,761
I feel much better...

1701
02:26:23,761 --> 02:26:25,801
<i>Apparently, just before I arrived...</i>

1702
02:26:25,801 --> 02:26:29,041
<i>...Duanmu and Xiao Hong</i>

1703
02:26:29,041 --> 02:26:30,721
<i>had been having a bitter row</i>

1704
02:26:32,441 --> 02:26:33,441
Wake up!

1705
02:26:35,841 --> 02:26:38,681
<i>Mr Yu Yifu had arranged a boat...</i>

1706
02:26:39,001 --> 02:26:41,681
<i>...to get us to Hong Kong island,
not yet occupied by the Japanese</i>

1707
02:26:42,521 --> 02:26:43,921
<i>Sea traffic</i>

1708
02:26:43,921 --> 02:26:46,041
<i>is now officially blocked</i>

1709
02:28:27,081 --> 02:28:29,921
Has our retreat been worked out?

1710
02:28:31,401 --> 02:28:32,561
My colleague Liao

1711
02:28:32,561 --> 02:28:35,841
has divided all the cultural people into groups

1712
02:28:36,641 --> 02:28:38,241
He's explained our plans

1713
02:28:38,241 --> 02:28:39,721
And has specified who will lead each group

1714
02:28:40,481 --> 02:28:43,601
You and Xiao Hong are in my group

1715
02:28:50,521 --> 02:28:53,761
...so I'm afraid you have no choice
but to stay

1716
02:29:03,001 --> 02:29:04,281
Luo Binji...

1717
02:29:06,961 --> 02:29:08,601
Before you met me...

1718
02:29:09,321 --> 02:29:11,441
...did you think that

1719
02:29:12,641 --> 02:29:15,281
I was a writer with loose morals?

1720
02:29:20,521 --> 02:29:22,321
I think everyone has heard a little about...

1721
02:29:22,321 --> 02:29:24,921
...your troubles with Xiao Jun

1722
02:29:37,601 --> 02:29:38,801
So, before you met me...

1723
02:29:38,801 --> 02:29:42,361
...you sided with Xiao Jun?

1724
02:29:49,521 --> 02:29:50,641
I know very well...

1725
02:29:52,721 --> 02:29:54,561
...that leaving Xiao Jun...

1726
02:29:55,881 --> 02:29:57,961
...solved one problem

1727
02:30:01,681 --> 02:30:05,321
And that Duanmu was the start
of another problem

1728
02:30:06,481 --> 02:30:11,121
Probably, everybody wears disguises

1729
02:30:13,721 --> 02:30:18,241
Nobody ever shows their true face

1730
02:30:21,081 --> 02:30:22,321
I've been thinking...

1731
02:30:27,881 --> 02:30:32,681
I can't tell if anyone will read my stuff later

1732
02:30:34,721 --> 02:30:36,201
But I'm quite sure...

1733
02:30:39,121 --> 02:30:44,801
...that the gossip about me will go on and on

1734
02:30:50,881 --> 02:30:53,801
<i>As we chatted that morning,
I asked Xiao Hong...</i>

1735
02:30:54,281 --> 02:30:57,321
<i>How could you live with Duanmu
for three or four years?</i>

1736
02:30:58,241 --> 02:30:59,521
<i>Xiao Hong replied...</i>

1737
02:31:00,121 --> 02:31:02,281
If the pain is in the marrow...

1738
02:31:04,081 --> 02:31:10,281
...you don't worry about the flesh wounds

1739
02:31:23,081 --> 02:31:28,681
He cannot endure the hardships with me

1740
02:31:38,681 --> 02:31:40,361
When I was in Sichuan...

1741
02:31:41,481 --> 02:31:43,321
...I found myself thinking of Xiao Jun

1742
02:31:46,201 --> 02:31:51,321
If I'd sent him a telegram...

1743
02:31:52,081 --> 02:31:53,521
...asking him to come...

1744
02:31:54,201 --> 02:31:56,001
...he would have been there for me

1745
02:31:58,281 --> 02:32:00,161
<i>Amid the sound of artillery shells...</i>

1746
02:32:00,161 --> 02:32:01,561
<i>...we talked about literature...</i>

1747
02:32:01,561 --> 02:32:02,721
<i>About Lu Xun...</i>

1748
02:32:02,721 --> 02:32:04,681
<i>About living through such hard times</i>

1749
02:32:05,641 --> 02:32:07,641
<i>We hadn't seen Duanmu for three or four days</i>

1750
02:32:20,361 --> 02:32:21,441
You're back!

1751
02:32:43,761 --> 02:32:45,481
You haven't left?

1752
02:34:00,641 --> 02:34:01,961
Sorry...Thank you

1753
02:34:07,401 --> 02:34:09,001
Sorry...Thank you, thank you

1754
02:34:32,521 --> 02:34:33,281
Good bye

1755
02:34:33,281 --> 02:34:35,601
<i>On Christmas Day of 1941,</i>

1756
02:34:35,921 --> 02:34:37,841
<i>Hong Kong fell to the Japanese</i>

1757
02:34:38,521 --> 02:34:40,961
<i>After hiding for some days in a storeroom...</i>

1758
02:34:41,201 --> 02:34:42,961
<i>...Xiao Hong's condition worsened</i>

1759
02:34:43,201 --> 02:34:45,721
<i>Duanmu and I sent her to a hospital</i>

1760
02:34:57,081 --> 02:34:58,321
Considering what's going on around us...

1761
02:34:58,321 --> 02:34:59,241
I told Duanmu

1762
02:34:59,241 --> 02:35:00,441
...I'll be frank

1763
02:35:00,961 --> 02:35:02,561
You're both famous artists

1764
02:35:02,561 --> 02:35:03,761
You have open minds

1765
02:35:05,121 --> 02:35:06,881
You have a tumor in your throat

1766
02:35:06,881 --> 02:35:08,081
We need to operate

1767
02:35:12,321 --> 02:35:13,961
I won't agree to an operation

1768
02:35:15,001 --> 02:35:18,201
A tuberculosis patient won't recover from it

1769
02:35:18,921 --> 02:35:20,681
My brother had spinal tuberculosis...

1770
02:35:20,681 --> 02:35:22,881
And he didn't recover from an operation

1771
02:35:23,081 --> 02:35:25,001
Who do you believe? Me? Or him?

1772
02:35:30,521 --> 02:35:31,961
Don't pussyfoot around

1773
02:35:33,361 --> 02:35:36,361
It's not the end of the world

1774
02:35:37,001 --> 02:35:38,081
Sign the consent

1775
02:35:39,081 --> 02:35:40,161
I won't

1776
02:35:48,561 --> 02:35:49,761
If you won't, I will

1777
02:36:34,361 --> 02:36:35,441
What did she say?

1778
02:36:36,961 --> 02:36:38,441
There was no tumor

1779
02:37:01,721 --> 02:37:03,081
Don't cry

1780
02:37:10,561 --> 02:37:15,241
I don't want...

1781
02:37:23,401 --> 02:37:25,601
...to leave you either

1782
02:37:33,721 --> 02:37:35,001
Come with me...

1783
02:37:44,241 --> 02:37:45,881
I'll contact Queen Mary Hospital

1784
02:37:59,681 --> 02:38:02,161
<i>At noon on January 18th, 1942...</i>

1785
02:38:02,761 --> 02:38:04,761
<i>...Xiao Hong was moved
to Queen Mary Hospital</i>

1786
02:39:19,601 --> 02:39:24,361
I feel quite all right

1787
02:39:27,121 --> 02:39:28,561
I've eaten a lot

1788
02:39:56,081 --> 02:39:57,401
Luo Binji...

1789
02:39:58,801 --> 02:40:00,161
Have a cigarette

1790
02:40:00,761 --> 02:40:02,041
Have one

1791
02:40:03,401 --> 02:40:04,521
I won't

1792
02:40:05,121 --> 02:40:06,001
It's all right

1793
02:40:06,001 --> 02:40:07,121
I don't want one

1794
02:40:08,481 --> 02:40:09,761
No light?

1795
02:40:10,281 --> 02:40:11,441
I'll call for one

1796
02:40:13,281 --> 02:40:14,841
All right, all right

1797
02:40:14,841 --> 02:40:15,961
Call the nurse

1798
02:40:16,721 --> 02:40:18,241
Don't exert yourself

1799
02:40:18,241 --> 02:40:19,361
It's done

1800
02:40:20,121 --> 02:40:22,561
Wait, the nurse will come

1801
02:40:23,801 --> 02:40:25,521
There's nobody in the whole hospital

1802
02:40:27,281 --> 02:40:28,561
I'll go and buy matches

1803
02:40:37,641 --> 02:40:41,041
<i>I intended to buy matches from a street-stall</i>

1804
02:40:41,441 --> 02:40:43,241
<i>But as I wandered downtown, it struck me...</i>

1805
02:40:43,841 --> 02:40:47,761
<i>...that I hadn't been back to Kowloon
since the city was occupied</i>

1806
02:40:48,201 --> 02:40:49,881
<i>Duanmu was with Xiao Hong</i>

1807
02:40:49,881 --> 02:40:51,521
<i>And she seemed better that day</i>

1808
02:40:52,041 --> 02:40:53,961
<i>So I went home to pick up my manuscripts</i>

1809
02:41:15,481 --> 02:41:17,961
<i>I went back to Queen Mary Hospital
next morning...</i>

1810
02:41:18,281 --> 02:41:20,281
<i>...to find that the Japanese
had taken it over</i>

1811
02:41:31,041 --> 02:41:33,161
<i>So I rushed back to the storeroom...</i>

1812
02:41:33,441 --> 02:41:35,441
<i>...and there found
a note Duanmu had left for me</i>

1813
02:41:36,001 --> 02:41:38,361
<i>Duanmu had taken Xiao Hong
to the French Hospital...</i>

1814
02:41:49,481 --> 02:41:52,161
The Japanese have taken the French Hospital too

1815
02:41:52,161 --> 02:41:53,201
Where's Xiao Hong?

1816
02:41:53,201 --> 02:41:55,321
They've set up a clinic
at St Stephen's Girls College

1817
02:43:02,961 --> 02:43:06,321
<i>"My grandfather lived in the little town
on the Hulan River”</i>

1818
02:43:06,321 --> 02:43:09,881
<i>"Grandfather was over sixty when I was born"</i>

1819
02:43:10,121 --> 02:43:13,881
<i>"He was nearly seventy by the time
I was four or five"</i>

1820
02:43:15,081 --> 02:43:17,161
<i>"Our house had a big garden"</i>

1821
02:43:17,161 --> 02:43:21,401
<i>"The garden was bright
with all the reds and greens"</i>

1822
02:43:21,401 --> 02:43:24,401
<i>"Flowers bloomed as if they were waking up"</i>

1823
02:43:24,841 --> 02:43:27,721
<i>"Birds flew as if they were going up
to heaven"</i>

1824
02:43:28,041 --> 02:43:31,921
<i>”When insects buzzed,
it was as if they were chatting"</i>

1825
02:43:32,241 --> 02:43:33,881
<i>Everything was alive</i>

1826
02:43:34,241 --> 02:43:35,921
<i>"There was no limit to what they could do"</i>

1827
02:43:36,361 --> 02:43:38,601
<i>"They had complete freedom"</i>

1828
02:43:38,761 --> 02:43:42,521
<i>"to do what they liked"</i>

1829
02:43:43,481 --> 02:43:46,881
<i>"If a plant wanted
to bear a fruit, it did so”</i>

1830
02:43:47,161 --> 02:43:48,841
<i>"If it didn't,"</i>

1831
02:43:48,841 --> 02:43:52,681
<i>"then not one fruit, not even a blossom"</i>

1832
02:43:53,081 --> 02:43:54,561
<i>"And no-one could object"</i>

1833
02:43:55,161 --> 02:43:58,481
<i>"But this back garden
was sealed off once each year”</i>

1834
02:43:59,081 --> 02:44:02,721
<i>”After the autumnal rains,
it would languish"</i>

1835
02:44:03,361 --> 02:44:06,001
<i>”The ﬂowers would yellow and fall,</i> ”

1836
02:44:06,201 --> 02:44:09,641
<i>"then wither and die"</i>

1837
02:44:10,161 --> 02:44:13,361
<i>"Almost as if someone was crushing them"</i>

1838
02:44:15,441 --> 02:44:18,321
<i>"Spring, summer, autumn, winter..."</i>

1839
02:44:18,321 --> 02:44:21,241
<i>"The seasonal cycle goes on </i>

1840
02:44:21,961 --> 02:44:23,961
<i>"just as it has since the beginning of time"</i>

1841
02:44:24,961 --> 02:44:26,761
<i>"Wind, frost, rain, snow..."</i>

1842
02:44:27,801 --> 02:44:30,881
<i>"Those who can bear up manage to survive"</i>

1843
02:44:30,881 --> 02:44:34,361
<i>”Those who cannot must take
the natural way out"</i>

1844
02:44:34,601 --> 02:44:37,641
<i>"That natural way out is not so very good"</i>

1845
02:44:38,441 --> 02:44:41,121
<i>"For such people are quietly..."</i>

1846
02:44:41,441 --> 02:44:43,201
<i>"Wordlessly. . . "</i>

1847
02:44:43,201 --> 02:44:46,801
<i>"...removed from this life and this world"</i>

1848
02:44:59,121 --> 02:45:02,561
<i>Xiao Hong wrote Tales of Hu/an River
in</i> 1941...

1849
02:45:02,961 --> 02:45:04,681
...at a time when most Chinese writers...

1850
02:45:04,681 --> 02:45:07,081
...were producing writings contributing

1851
02:45:07,321 --> 02:45:10,841
to the anti-Japanese war effort

1852
02:45:12,121 --> 02:45:15,761
<i>Tales of Hu/an River didn't meet
the</i> needs <i>of the time</i>

1853
02:45:16,721 --> 02:45:19,081
All these decades later,

1854
02:45:20,041 --> 02:45:22,681
now that we're far from China in wartime...

1855
02:45:23,001 --> 02:45:25,961
...people have discovered that
<i>Tales of Hulan River...</i>

1856
02:45:25,961 --> 02:45:29,201
...is like an undying flower
which had been buried by history

1857
02:45:29,481 --> 02:45:32,681
This choice that she made for herself...

1858
02:45:32,961 --> 02:45:38,721
...had made her name immortal

1859
02:45:50,521 --> 02:45:54,201
<i>"These tales I've written
are not all beautiful”</i>

1860
02:45:55,201 --> 02:45:58,641
<i>"But these memories fill me"</i>

1861
02:46:00,121 --> 02:46:01,681
<i>"I cannot forget them"</i>

1862
02:46:02,161 --> 02:46:03,761
<i>"They stay with me"</i>

1863
02:46:05,281 --> 02:46:06,881
<i>"And so I have recorded them here"</i>

1864
02:46:26,601 --> 02:46:28,361
Hey, feller, the candies are two cents,
not one!