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Criterion collection ; 1077Summary: In four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai "flower houses", courtesans live confined to opulent splendor but are forced to work to buy back their freedom, and romantic intrigue, jealousies and tensions roil around their assignations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FLOSummary: Ye Haiyan is labeled a trouble maker by the Chinese government. Someone who embarrasses the state, for example, with public protests involving the civil rights of sex workers. She travels to Hainan Province to protest a case in which sexual mistreatment of elementary-age school girls by their principal has gone unprosecuted.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HOOSummary: Set in late nineteenth-century Shanghai and takes place in an elegant brothel. With its own highly ritualized codes of behavior, the lives of the "Flower girls" depend on their ability to win, and then keep, the affections of their wealthy callers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2001