Still from Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl — Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998) — Joan ChenPhotographed by Lü Yue and Michael Chin

Joan Chen

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

Name: Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
Genre: Drama
Released: 1998
Duration: 99 min

English / 1998 / 1h 39m

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Drama

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Synopsis

Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.