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    Raising the Curtain

    Sep 03, 2020 4 minutes
    By Li Qing
    Copyedited by Sudeshna Sarkar

    ao Xin’s friends would have been stunned to know that last month, when she told them she was going to watch a movie. She went to see a film released in 1998. But for the college student, watching , a light comedy based on the life of an average Chinese family, was an engrossing activity on two counts. It’s an evergreen tale that won the Audience Award at the Far East Film Festival in Italy in 2011. Also, Hao watched it in the open air and it revived the happy memories of her childhood, when she would watch films outdoor

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