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Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl () is a 1998 film based during the 1970s and the time of the People's Republic of China's Cultural Revolution's Down to the Countryside Movement, instituted by Mao for political reasons. Xiu Xiu, a 15-year-old girl living in the city of Chengdu, moves out to study horses in the countryside, and quickly discovers that she is not returning. She learns lessons about love and life as she struggles against corruption in the government to return to her family by giving officials her body for their sexual gratification, and deals with her caretaker, Lao Jin.

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Experimental musician, Jamie Stewart, has referred to the movie as "the saddest film has ever seen," and abridged its title for his popular band, Xiu Xiu.

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