At its core Tie Xi Qu is about the socioeconomic transformation from a hardcore anti revisionist policy under Mao Tse Tsung into a mixed and free-market focused economy and the byproducts of this affect. The factories in ruin, from a thriving city that marked the hallmark of the communist China of the 60s and 70s, into one in ruin; filled with unemployment, poverty, and social dislocation.
It shows us the human cost of these changes, the lives of the ordinary…
