Xiao-Li is a devoted housewife and an active member of her local Catholic church in the farmlands of southern China. Her faith is put to the test...

A policeman investigates an introverted signal-station manager suspected of raping a hotel clerk.

Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student....

Wu is in her mid-twenties and lives with her mother in a traditional one-story house in one of Beijing’s hutongs. Both consider themselves to be...