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'''''Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress''''' is a novel written in 2000 by Dai Sijie, which he adapted himself to movie format in 2002.
In 1971, Luo and Ma, two college students, are sent for ideological reeducation to Phoenix Mountain, a remote part of rural Sichuan. There they are required to perform manual labor until such time as the authorities decide. One day they meet the Little Seamstress, the granddaughter of the local tailor, and decide to awaken her to the beauty of literature. They give her [[Banned in China|books by various "forbidden" authors]], among whom [[Balzac]].
At first their relationship is strictly platonic, but Luo and the Little Seamstress become intimate, to the silent resentment of Ma who was also developing romantic feelings for the young woman. When she turns out to be pregnant, it is Ma who arranges for her to have a discreet abortion.
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