"New Woman" "Oh!" "Aren't you Zhang Xiuzhen from the music department?" "It's only been a few years since we left school, but you're so glamorous now I almost didn't recognize you." "You must be married." "What should I call you?" "Call me Mrs. Wang, or by my old school name." "It's up to you." "This is my old classmate, Mrs. Wang." "This is Mr. Yu Haichou, an editor at Shanghai Publishing." "Where are you coming from?" "From the City Paper office." "I bought some things with my paycheck." "It's Saturday, so you must have time to come to my place for a chat?" "I was in fact heading to your place." "I've good news for you." "Phone call for Ms. Wei!" "It's Saturday: you must have some free time!" "I'd like to ask you to dinner." "You must say yes." "I'm very sorry, but I'm busy." "I don't have time." "No problem!" "I'll come over later." "You've changed your name." "I've just learned you're a literary figure now!" "A few days ago, I read a story by Wei Ming in the paper, and I had no idea it was you." "It was excellent!" "I even pointed it out to my husband." "The publisher has agreed to publish your manuscript, but will only pay 10% of the royalties." "And not until the book is published." "What do you think?" "Do what you think is best." "If not for you, all my hard work would be unnoticed in the first place." "Can you believe it's because you never write "Ms" after your name?" "Let me tell you how the publisher decided to publish your book." "It really makes me angry." "You're sure we're going to reject this?" "Have you read it?" "To begin with, the title is bad." "Plus no one's heard of the author." "It definitely won't sell." "Mr. Yu..." "Who's this?" "Your..." "No, just a friend." "The author of this novel." "Why didn't you say earlier that the author was a young lady who looks like this?" "If we advertise it as a book by a woman author, it'll stir up some publicity." "I'm sure it'll sell well!" ""The Tomb of Love" by Ms. Wei Ming" "Good!" "Let's quickly have her add a preface, and we'll publish it right away!" "I bought it for a little girl I love." "You should like it, because this is a woman who never falls down." "Going out again?" "While I was in Beiping," "I heard talk that you were out of control here in Shanghai!" "You really misunderstand me!" "I'm so busy every day, how do I have time to play around?" "You're busy during the day, and busy at night too?" "I don't believe you!" "Always going out alone!" "At night there are always those Chinese-style banquets." "You know those old-fashioned fellows, they never bring their wives." "I have to socialize or the sake of business!" "I don't care about your business!" "Tell me, have you ever given me real money to spend?" "You bought yourself a fancy new car, and cruise around every day." "I'm only a rich man's wife in name." "Whenever I go anywhere," "I take a public bus!" "How can I have any face?" "Tomorrow's Sunday, so I can't get you any money." "But the day after, I'll get you 2000 dollars to buy a car." "Will that satisfy you?" "2000 dollars!" "That's only enough to buy a tinny old car." "You might as well keep the money for yourself!" "You need more than 2000 in silver to buy a new one!" "It's not that I don't want to take you out, but we shouldn't engage in decadent enjoyments like dancing at a time like this." "I don't understand you." "Why are you always cold as a glacier!" "Because one is always afraid to catch on fire... passion sometimes results in self-immolation!" "I guessed you'd be done with business by now." "I'm glad I'm right." "I hope you haven't been waiting long?" "A few days ago at the trustees meeting, the principal reported that exams end and school lets out next Monday." "During the break, get some rest, go out and have some fun." "Let's drive out to the Beachside International Dance Hall, shall we?" "Do you mind if I smoke?" "This is Dr. Wang, a Ph. D. just returned from the U.S." "He's general secretary at United Bank, and has agreed to join our school board as a trustee." "This is our music teacher, Miss Wei Ming." "Charmed!" "I'm very interested in questions of education and music." "I hope we'll often have a chance to discuss them." "Schedule:" "Teach singing, writing, and reading to factory girls." "Music Teaching Score: "Huangpu River"" "rewritten by Li Aying" "Saturday, 7:30-9:00." "Teach singing." ""Peach Blossom River"" "I love you so much!" "You're the most beautiful person in the world." "I hope you'll be my companion for life!" "If you would only promise to marry me..." "I've heard too much of this kind of talk!" "Marriage!" "What can marriage give me?" ""Companion for life!"" "Might as well call it "Slave for Life!"" "I believe in late marriage." "That's why I haven't married yet." "Are you also committed to being single?" "Will you never marry?" "HOTEL" "I have a favor to ask you." "Will you wait for me at home after lunch?" "Dear younger sister," "I haven't received a letter from you in a long time, so I think you must be very busy." "We are in dire financial straits now after the death of brother-in-law, and life is very difficult." "I'm taking Little Hong and coming south to stay with you." "We'll be arriving in Shanghai in the next day or so." "We'll talk in detail when we meet." "Your recently widowed elder sister" "We'll be in Shanghai this afternoon, and you'll meet your mama." "Auntie, I have a mama too?" "Silly!" "How could you not have a mama?" "Where did you come from?" "But why haven't you told me before, Auntie?" "What does my mama look like?" "Auntie!" "Does she look like our neighbor's mama?" "Mama is really beautiful!" "Who is this person standing beside Mama?" "It's your papa." "I'll leave this poor child in your care." "There's no future here, I must go to Shanghai." "I don't want this terrible papa." "I want my mama!" "Please come to the school on July 1st for a meeting about the school's finances." "Women's Music College Donation Form" "But she is a very popular teacher here, it would be hard to..." "The rice store came again with the bill." "Could you please pay your board!" "I wrote a song called "New Woman. " I hope you can set it to music." "Right now I'm taking currently popular but meaningless songs, and rewriting them to teach our workers." "But this isn't a permanent solution." "We still need to write our own songs." "I hope you'll join me!" "This is my revision of "Peach Blossom River" as "Huangpu River. "" "I hope you'll associate more with people like Aying." "Mama!" "Auntie told me Mama used to cry too." "She probably caught cold on the trip." "Do you live close to here?" "No." "But no one there knows I have a child." "I plan to find you another place to stay." "Let's first go to the hotel." "Qi Weide, Editor-in-Chief, City Paper" "Your writing is like you:" "elegant and wonderful!" "I hope you will often write for us." "As for your payment, now that we know each other, I can raise your rates." "I'd like to ask for your photo to publish in the paper." "A pretty woman novelist like you," "I'm sure will arouse our readers' passionate attention!" "Unfortunately, I don't have one with me." "I'll come by your place and pick it up." "Your address?" "Ms. Wei Ming," "Due to restructuring at the school, we are canceling your class and terminating your appointment." "The Principal" "Miss Wei!" "You have nothing to worry about!" "Perhaps you'll encounter an opportunity a hundred times better than teaching." "In the future, the school must rely on your good will and support!" "For the time being, please forgive me." "Everything will become clear soon." "Rent for the piano is three months overdue." "The instrument will be reclaimed if payment is not received in the next three days." "I've just lost my job." "If I can make money from writing, then I'll have to depend on that to earn a living from now on." "Here's 30 dollars." "Take it now, and we can deduct it from your manuscript fee." "What do you take me for!" "Please show some self-respect!" "Please pay the last two months' rent as soon as possible!" "We really can't afford to cover you." "Someone like you, young and pretty, who can also sing and play music, do you ever have to worry about feeding yourself?" "With money, anyone can cop a feel." "No money, you get all uppity!" "It's not good that she's been coughing this long." "Let's take her to the hospital." "Sir, it's not serious, is it?" "She's already got pneumonia, so it's quite serious." "But don't worry." "As long as we use the new antibiotics, she'll be fine." "She'll be cured in two weeks." "Go to the front desk to arrange for her hospital stay." "The hospital comes to 37.50." "The medicine is 10.00 per day and the injections 8.00 per day." "Please pay 127.50 for five days before you check in." "When she's well enough to check out, we'll refund any overpayment." "Sir, could we pay a portion now, and pay the rest later?" "Sorry, we really can't make an exception." "Just check with any hospital in town." "They're all the same." "CHARITY HOSPITAL" "Take her back to the hotel." "I'll think of something." "An emergency?" "Why do you need so much?" "120 dollars!" "Don't ask what it's for." "Let's talk to the publisher." "Your novel is really good." "We've rushed it to press, and it will be published in a few days." "Miss Wei wants to know if she can be advanced 120 dollars for an emergency." "Well... business is not good at all, and we owe two months' salary to our employees." "But since our job is to promote culture, we hope our authors can be a little frugal." "Please understand!" "And we never pay royalties until we make a profit on the book!" "No personal problem can be this serious." "Why are you so anxious?" "Please pay the bill for these three days." "Please tell the front desk to ask later." "Why are you packing?" "Are you going somewhere?" "I just heard today about your dismissal from school." "I came here to offer my help." "If you are determined to recover your position, I'm sure it could be easily accomplished..." "But, someone like you is wasted as a schoolteacher!" "I'm almost going mad with love for you!" "When I don't see you, I can't eat, I can't sleep." "Please say yes!" "How much can I get if I pawn this diamond?" "Pawn?" "How would I know?" "I just bought it for 3200 cash." "If you say yes, everything of mine will be yours." "PAWN" "HOTEL" "I'll never marry, because I can't be a slave for life!" "Not only am I in no mood for love, I could never love someone like you!" "Fine!" "It's unnecessary to stay in the hotel." "Pay the bill, and move to my place." "Can you please tell me, how much can I get for these things?" "The lot's worth two or three hundred, but you'd only get 20 dollars if you pawn them." "It's always easy for you young women to get money." "Don't worry yourself sick!" "She's in critical condition!" "If you don't send her to a hospital, it won't be easy to save her!" "Time to eat!" "The customer tonight is a wealthy sort." "Damn!" "And he's picky!" "According to him, as long as he likes what he sees, a few hundred dollars is nothing." "The one in your room looks almost desperate enough." "If you can persuade her, you'll definitely make lots more money than from your regular girl." "What!" "You want me to sell myself!" "Only slaves sell their bodies!" "That's reasonable." "But if we women want to make a little money in this world, what other path is open to us?" "I know you don't want to do this kind of thing, but can you watch your beloved daughter die without helping her?" "Okay!" "I'll be a slave for one night!" "Don't cry, Mama will save you." "Tomorrow I'll take you to the hospital." "Miss, don't cry anymore." "You'll ruin your makeup." "The customers don't want to see you sad." "You must wear a smile on your face!" "New Woman Author Ms. Wei Ming THE TOMB OF LOVE" "Let me introduce you to a high class friend." "As long as you two get along, because of your looks, you'll get at least a hundred out of him." "No need to wear any more masks!" "Let's talk business!" "How much for a night?" "Tell me yourself!" "How about I give you 3200 cash?" "Is it a deal?" "You men are dogs, scheming to get women, so we can't help but sell ourselves to you" "...with your inescapable traps, that you think are right and proper!" "Hmph!" "One day..." "Why are you so stubborn?" "Since you frequent Madam Xu's, why don't we talk frankly?" "Aren't I as good as your other customers?" "What kind of thing are you?" "Damn!" "I'm a human being!" "You're the one who's a thing!" "I took you to be my old classmate." "You're shameless!" "Seducing my husband!" "You're low class, yet you pretend to be a high class woman, and shame them as well!" "And a man in your position, bewitched by a vixen!" "Do you know she dresses in alluring outfits and does who knows what with dubious men?" "New Woman Author Ms. Wei Ming THE TOMB OF LOVE" "Damn!" "What a modern woman author!" "Then, you really don't love her?" "If you want to misunderstand me, go right ahead!" "Could I love this kind of woman?" "What a joke!" "This Qi Weide fellow is a famous lecher." "Whatever woman he's promoting is no good." "So stop being jealous!" "Where did you meet Wei Ming?" "You really consider her a modern woman author?" "To tell the truth, I didn't intend to promote her career." "Furthermore, she's totally unappreciative!" "But the publisher is making a big fuss over her." "The advertising department also says we can't criticize her." "What can I do?" "Do you have some dirt?" "If you publish this, don't mention me!" "Why didn't you tell me the truth before?" "I'm poor, but with help from friends, there would have been a way." "Let's call that doctor again, and ask him to come!" "Sleeping Pills" "Child!" "... we... have... no hope!" "When you are gone..." "Mama will follow." "Little sister!" "The child has left us, that's tragic enough!" "You still have the heart to leave me?" "Sister!" "I really can't go on living." "We have no power to change this society." "As for your future, discuss it with sister Aiying!" ""The Ugly History of a Woman Author"" "Judging by the amount of pills she took and the time elapsed, she still has a chance." "But her heart is very weak, and she has suffered a great emotional shock." "Best is to rush her to the hospital!" "Sir, you seem to be a good friend of my sister's." "I'm really at my wit's end." "Could you please take her to the hospital?" "Here's 50 dollars." "There's a hospital nearby, next to the silk factory." "I'll call for an ambulance." "Hot off the press!" "City Paper Night Edition!" "Three coppers!" "Read all about it!" "Woman author Wei Ming commits suicide!" "You... saved me... why?" "... you think" "I haven't suffered enough?" "Sister Aying... take care of my elder sister... find her a job..." "I..." "am hopeless!" "Let me die!" "Your troubles are greater and your suffering more complex than ours." "I know this." "No matter how painful life is, suicide is for the weak!" "After you die, people will ridicule you." "Is it worth it?" "Who cares if it's worth it!" "If I don't see..." "Fine." "Take a look at this with your very own eyes." "Woman author WEl MING COMMITS SUICIDE" "The Departure of a Romantic Female." "A Warning for the Modern Lady." "Secret History Revealed." "Former Prostitute." "Child Out of Wedlock." ""Analysis of Wei Ming's Suicide" by Qi Weide" "Suicide Cannot Be a Common Practice Women Will Always Be the Weaker Ones" "I... want... revenge!" "If you want revenge, then get rid of your apathy!" "Have you forgotten the spirit of the Woman Who Cannot Topple Over?" "Life is a struggle." "If you fall down, stand up again, and you'll be victorious!" "He's right!" "Sister Wei Ming!" "If you die, then everything is over." "Personal revenge is useless, but living is the prerequisite for doing anything!" "Yes!" "I plan to live!" "I want to throw off my individual troubles, and begin my new life." "It's good that I've already died once!" "Please, when can I leave the hospital?" "The toxin is mostly gone." "But the patient is too weak." "She's always had a heart problem, and I'm afraid her condition still could change." "You should talk to her less!" "Sign her out for me!" "Oh!" "What a pity!" "What a pity!" "What a pity we didn't have her write more novels!" "I wonder if there are any posthumous works?" "We should find out." "Hey!" "Why don't we plan a memorial service for her?" "We definitely don't have any feelings for her, but this could benefit us." "Plus wouldn't it provide more news items?" "Save me!" "I want to live!" "I want to live!" "I want to live!"