Representation of Female Characters in Post-Cultural Revolution Chinese Cinema

This essay on the use of film in CCP propaganda zooms in on the presentation of gender roles and women. Following Communist ideology, movies like The White Haired Girl (Bái Máo Nǚ) presented women as equal to men; the student demonstrates, however, that ongoing female stereotypes prevented a realistic depiction of women's experiences, even within this gender paradigm.
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