Zhili, à 150 km de Shanghai. Dans cette cité dédiée à la confection textile, les jeunes affluent de toutes les régions rurales traversées par le fleuve Yangtze. Ils ont 20 ans, partagent les dortoirs, mangent dans les coursives. Ils travaillent sans relâche pour pouvoir un jour élever un enfant, s’acheter une maison ou monter leur propre atelier. Entre eux, les amitiés et les liaisons amoureuses se nouent et se dénouent au gré des saisons, des faillites et des pressions familiales.
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- Shanghai Qingnian
- JEUNESSE (LE PRINTEMPS)
Liming is a worker district close to Shanghai – the richest city in China. Every year, many young people leave their villages and move there. They are between 17 and 20, all from rural Yunnan Province, 2,500 km west, where the Yangtze River has its source. These young Yunnanese often live at their place of work, in dormitories, unsanitary rooms, or sometimes in small studios. Time and space to meet is missing them. So they communicate through QQ, MSN China. They live as adults but they are teenagers, and the unstable situation, economic pressures, geographical dispersion, burn their innocence and youth. Wang Bing will spend a year with them in Liming: at work, at home, on the Internet, every day of their professional, romantic, and friendly relations. At the end of the year he will follow them in the opposite direction to their province of origin, to be with their family and celebrate Chinese New Year.
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