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Stories Set in Chengdu
Chengdu is a mild basin city in the west of China known for teahouses, narrow lanes and panda woods on its edge. The Dujiangyan irrigation works built in the third century BC made its plain unusually fertile, so stories here favor unhurried daily life over court intrigue. 24 City and Youth sit on its shelf. Open Chengdu on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 4 movies set in Chengdu.
Youth
A group of performing art troupe members each face their own trials and tribulations in Chengdu; from escaping a family scandal to dealing with unrequited love each experiences rejection that shapes their lives.
24 City
24 City chronicles the dramatic closing of a once-prosperous state-owned factory in Chengdu southwest China and its conversion into a sprawling luxury apartment complex. Three generations eight characters : old workers…
Buddha Mountain
In Chengdu China a retired female opera singer named Master Chang takes in a trio of young tenants into her boarding home. The tenants include a rock singer and a college student who has run away from home.
Night Peacock
Liu Yifei plays Elso a reputed French flutist who travels from Paris to Chengdu. Her life is compared to the one of a night peacock an eternal conflict between life and death love and time. A night peacock by Fabre’s…
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