Women play a heroic role in the Volunteer Army fighting the Japanese in the puppet state of Manchukuo.

Cuicui is raised by her 70-year-old grandfather. 17 years ago, Her mother was pregnant before marriage and she committed suicide after giving birth to Cuicui by drinking cold water in the river. When Cuicui grows up, her grandfather begins to worry about her marriage, because he doesn’t want Cuicui to have the miserable life like her mother.

A young graduate art student becomes involved in the marital affairs of her mentor.

The life and death of Zhao Yi-Man, a female member of the Chinese resistance

Factory workers in 1947 repair a bridge over Song Hua River so that Communist forces can use it.

In a mountain hamlet in eastern China, a poor woman faces trial after trial. Sold into marriage as a child, she is left a young widow and enslaved by her mother-in-law, who sells her to a poor peasant. Her second marriage turns out to be happy until fate takes away her husband and son. Now seen as a bearer of bad luck, she becomes a social outcast.