Small Happiness: Women of a Chinese Village

1984, color, 59 min.

(In Chinese with English subtitles)

The Chinese countryside, where one-fifth of the world’s people live, is rarely seen in the West. Even more obscure are the four hundred million women that live there. The women of Long Bow village speak about birth control, family relationships, work, foot-binding and a strike in a local all -woman workshop. But the most remarkable story is saved for the end of the film when an older woman tells the story of her life with her “feudal” husband and how her own life has changed for the better since the Liberation.