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Feminist hit movie Her Story touted as China’s answer to Barbie

Directed by a woman with a cast of female leads, the film is the latest to be centred around female experiences and prove a box office success in China

The recent box office success of Her Story, a Chinese comedy directed by a woman with a cast of female leads, has led commentators to dub the movie China’s answer to Barbie. The second feature film by Chinese director Shao Yihui, Her Story revolves around a newly unemployed single mother with a daughter and their young female neighbour, as they explore their experiences and struggles as women in Shanghai. “In China, women’s perspectives and experiences are consistently marginalised in mainstream narratives and dismissed by men in popular gender-issue debates,” said Altman Peng, associate professor in the department of applied linguistics at the University of Warwick.

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