The New Chinese Woman

• 作者: LU RUCAI
• 来源期刊: 今日中国：英文版
• 学科: 政治法律
• 关键词: 中国 妇女 社会地位 就业工作
• 年，卷（期）: 2006,（7）
• 页码范围: 34-36
• 页数: 3页
• 分类号: D442.6

摘要

<正>IN addition to being a big hit with female urban professionals, the recently released film Perpetual Motion is a main source of feminist discussion. The film's four main characters are successful career women. One of them, middle-aged Niuniu, discovers that her husband is having an extra-marital affair. She invites her three woman friends - fashion model Qinqin, real estate dealer Ye and artist Lala - one of whom she suspects is emotionally entangled with her husband, to her siheyuan home at Spring Festival. The four talk, comparing emotional experiences and the men they have known. The suspense aspect of the film i.e. which of the women is having an affair with Niuniu's husband, is superseded by this frank, unequivocal baring of emotions and repressed desires. The