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China

September 25, 2010



jinqiu is home wearing a new blue jersey, a gift from her boyfriend jianxin. mother pinches her nose affectionately and asks :"Did he lay a hand on you ?"

 hearing of her classmate's unplanned pregnant ,jingqiu anxiously confesses her secert to a close friend .she's worried that"sleeping on the same bed as a guy" can get you pregnant.

"Come on aren't they a little too ignorant about love and sex?" said student Xu Yihui 18, coming out of the Poly Theater in downtown Shenzhen.

Xu is skeptical of the passionfree plot of Zhang Yimou's new movie "Under the Hawthorn Tree"

Billed as "the purest movie in history", the tear-jerker revolves around a pledgr between a high school student and her dying boyfriend in the mid-1970s.

 the movie satisfies adults'nostalgia for a less complicated era barely today's materialism . But young people who have grown up with the Internet ,tight jeans and gossip Girl,have their own definition of qingchun , or innocence.

The film has caused controversy ever since the 59-year-old director Zhang spent agent ages trying to cast his leading heroine:someone who was"pretty but not self-conscious", and was "simple and pure"
 
 Changing values
however ,Zhang's definition of innocence has lost its appeal in the real world.

Peng Yang , 24 , runs a pharmaceutical company in Shanghai . His younger sister once set him up with one  of her roommates, who was said to be "innocent".

Peng was frustrates after meeting the woman. He said:"  i found that what they called "innocent"is actually simple-minded and gullible."

Li Luya is a contestant in the Universiade Star , a student beauty  pageant in ShenZhen.With long,silky hair and wearing flat shose,the quiet 20-year-old matches men's fantasy of a pure Chinese young woman.

But she wanted to shed the "naive , pretty girl " stereotype .

"Reporters want me to say that i like  playing piano or reading"said Li  an English major in Shenzhen University . She admitted her hobbies are shopping and gossiping .

"I don't like people imposing their values on me ."

while in the film jingqiu hid her flattened bust under man's shit ,contestant in the Universiad Star are proud to show off their figures . People's notions of beauty have changed .





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06:11 AM Jan 05 2011

VNZwang

VNZwang
Thailand

Oh..I will find and watch it then!

10:54 PM Jan 04 2011

sing*.*

sing*.*
China

in that age ,chinese has very pool .so the  costumes are shabby condition

05:00 AM Jan 04 2011

VNZwang

VNZwang
Thailand

It's so interesting