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Questions for Essay Eight
作文答题8
Within the scope of the queries below, talk about your views on urbanization and commodity society. No less than 500 words.
- What epiphany is there for Ping Guo, a rural peasant coming to working in Beijing to seek a better life only to raped? In what way does money (exchange value) play an important role as Ping Guo, Lin Dong, An Kun interact with one another?
- What problems do you see that complicate the romance between Jinghe, Nuan and Yaba who grow up during China’s transformation from an agrarian to an urban society? Do you want to live in a society of use-values or one of exchange values? Why?
- What is the new normal of “Reform and Opening” for An Kun and Ping Guo, Jing He and Nuan? How are their attitudes being affected toward love and married life, sex and rape, femininity and manhood, or migration and displacement?
