Xu Tang

Provoking Laughter is a 2016 Chinese adventure crime comedy film directed by Tang Xu and starring Pan Yueming, Wu Yue, Chang Yuan, Archie Kao, Tan Kai and Lin Peng. It was released in China by Dadi Century Films Distribution on 29 December 2016.

Two women who live very different lives decide to exchange homes. Ai Lin (Vicky Yu) is poor while Wen Di (Cenzi Xu) is wealthy. But when they are both dumped by their boyfriends on the same day, they accidentally meet each other.

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With globalization, Chinese society underwent rapid changes during the “Reform and Opening-Up” period, especially with the widespread use of the term “Made in China.” This term led to changes in visual habits, particularly in the landscapes of some major Chinese cities, such as quickly built skyscrapers and modern, attractive urban scenes. While these landscapes may reflect societal change, I believe they remain superficial. What is more crucial is the “internal” transformation. What is internal? It refers to changes in people’s concepts of survival and their ways of living. Therefore, I spent three years focusing on how these shifts in survival concepts influenced behavior in four of China’s most prominent cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, (which we now call “Bei,shang,guang,shen”), and recording them