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This 4 page paper gives a brief summary of four Chinese books/films: Xiangzi Camel, Five in the Nightclub, Budding Desires, and Cold Nights. Underlying and unifying themes examined and exampled. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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the answer would be that money is what really matters, because money is power and power is security. Still others may argue that what really matters is ones concept of
oneself, that one should be content with the hand that life has given, and to make the most with what one has. These arguments become quite clear in a study
of various films originating from China. Camel Xiangzi by Lao She is set in the early 1920s in China. The protagonist, or hero of the story, is Xiangzi, a
rickshaw boy. Xiangzi has just moved to Beijing with little more than the clothes on his back. However, he manages to endure working in oppressive conditions for nearly three years
until he has the money to buy his own rickshaw. But if he thinks that his problems have been solved, he is sadly mistaken. Owning his own rickshaw means
that he is now the competition and those who were his friends, formerly, are now his enemies. In addition to the internal business wars which plague his life, there is
the reality of actual war. Beijing is in a struggle between various warlords who are attempting to define territories amongst them. Xiangzi becomes trapped between one such skirmish and ends
up going over a cliff in his rickshaw. At the bottom of the cliff, however, he finds three camels, apparently having ended up there as he did. He seems
them as a good sign, takes them, sells them, and is able to rejoin the rickshaw company. He marries, but then loses both his wife and unborn child. This sends
Xiangzi into a bout of depression from which he does not recover. The last view one has of Xiangzi is as he becomes just one of the huddled masses, absorbed
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