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Director Li Yu's Lost in Beijing captures the essence of China's booming growth in the late 2000s. Released exactly one year before the Olympics, the film vividly depicts a ruthless city where everyone fights for money and power. It focuses on Pingguo, an immigrant woman who works at a massage parlor. We watch her girlfriend roam the streets as she struggles to carve her own path.
In the second session of Drum Tower Film Club, Alice Su economist's senior China correspondent and Beijing bureau chief David Rennie watches “Lost in Beijing.” they ask: What does this film reveal about the dynamics of money, gender, and power in Beijing in the 2000s? And have these dynamics changed today?
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