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Dwelling Narrowness

蜗居

2009 · TV series · 40 min episodes · 1 season

Created by Zhang Xin, Teng Huatao, Cao Dun

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Dwelling Narrowness (Chinese: 蜗居; pinyin: Wōjū), also known literally as Snail House, was a 2009 television series broadcast in Mainland China, based on a 2007 novel of the same name. It depicts two sisters struggling with life in Jiangzhou, a fictional city that strongly resembles present-day Shanghai. The Chinese name is a figure of speech meaning "humble abode".

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  1. PositivenarratorNov 11, 2010

    I read a couple of specialized news blogs written mostly by people out of Hong Kong about things going on in China. It's pretty amazing story involving 1/6th of humanity.

    Here's some good blogs if you want to follow along:

    http://www.zonaeuropa.com/weblog.htm

    http://www.chinahush.com/

    http://www.danwei.org/

    There are many others. A good movie to watch is "Manufactured Landscapes" if you want to see the dark side of all this.

    Also, "Dwelling Narrowness" is a good mainland Chinese drama. Some versions on the Internet are available with fan contributed English subtitles. It does a pretty good job IMHO of talking about a lot of the apolitical transformations that are going on in Chinese society.