LIVING WITHOUT MEN

My role: Sound Recorder

Gold award winner of iSunTV Chinese Documentary Awards (Nov 2011)

Synopsis

When given two options in their 20s: submitting to an arranged marriage or taking a vow of celibacy for life, some Chinese women preferred the latter. Instead of serving their husband and children at home, they earned their living in spinning factories and moved into a nursing home after retirement. Now in their 90s, they tell their stories with pride and loneliness, but no regret: “It was the fashion.”

(Film directed by Lucia Luo)