Young Babylon (2024)

Young Babylon (2024)

Other name: 少年巴比伦 , Shao Nian Ba Bi Lun , 少年巴比伦剧版 , 少年巴比倫

Synopsis: Knowing nothing more than the working-class life he is born into, headstrong Lu Xiao Lu reluctantly starts down the path he is expected to follow. At age nineteen in 1990s China, he feels pressure to follow suit with those around him and takes a job at the town’s saccharin factory. Slowly, he adjusts to the bureaucratic factory routine, making the best of the situation by bonding with coworkers, flirting with girls, and refusing to give in completely to the expectations of those around him.

As Lu Xiao Lu finds his way, a startling portrait of an economically expanding China comes into view; the propaganda of a common goal gives way to a bottom-line system that he sees as indifferent to individual happiness. But thanks to the relationships he develops, Lu Xiao Lu decides to fight for the life he wants.

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  2. teens babylon or teens confusion (also the novel title) is story of teens not sure about what to do in life. movie adaptation was young love lost. Main actor from I Am Nobody. set in 1996 fucheng (south china which has plenty of storms and people eat plenty of fish). The father works in a canned fish factory. Personally, I still eat canned sardines packed in water about 1x a week for omega 3. Main guy is in last year of high school and about to take the college entrance exam. In china dramas, something bad always happens to characters on the day of the college entrance exam. main gal is the factory doctor. china has changed a lot since 1996 bec china is now ahead of america in AI technology.

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