Farewell, Beijing

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Gong Fenghai, an educated urban youth from Beijing and also a fervent supporter of Mao Zedong decided to heed Chairman Mao's call to go to the rural area of Yanan during the Cultural Revolution. Forty years later, 60 year-old Gong wants to return to Beijing and retire there. What greets him is a hometown that is at once familiar and yet strangely distant....