Qing Lou Yan Yun 青楼烟云

Description:

During the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chongqing became the provisional capital, and Sichuan became the deep rear. The entry of the Kuomintang central forces into Sichuan sharpened and complicated all kinds of contradictions; people from every stratum outside the province swarmed into Sichuan, also causing the clash and fusion of different cultures. The Zui Xian Lou changed owners. The locally stationed Sichuan army division commander Li became the backstage boss of the Zui Xian Lou, supporting Ruan Qiu-Ping, with whom he had an ambiguous relationship, and turning the establishment into a pleasure house. Division commander Li not only made money from it, but also used it as a place to court the powerful. Ruan Qiu-Ping, once a performer of female roles in opera, was forced to submit herself to division commander Li, and her special circumstances shaped her into a woman of complex character. Though she moves through the mire, her patriotism and kindness have never been extinguished. Thus her words and deeds are often full of contradictions, and her actions often run counter to her original intentions, creating many comedic situations.
The singing girl knows nothing of the grief of a fallen nation, across the river she still sings "Flowers in the Rear Courtyard."
Yet is it only the singing girl who knows nothing of the grief of a fallen nation?
In the Lian Xiang Ge, one new story after another unfolds. Pompous civil officials and military officers here expose their ugliest sides one and all, revealing their true colors. Filthy and vile dealings, a decadent life of drunken dreams — all paint a gallery of grotesques.