3. Fengxia is a daughter of the new China. What does it mean for the daughter of the new China to be silent or silenced? Why is she the one who cannot speak?
4. Yongqing is the son of Fugui and Jaizhen. Sons have long been preferred in Chinese society. He is
pampered, yet nevertheless, he dies young. It is an old friend, who is now a communist party leader, who
has accidentally killed the boy. What might be the significance of that death?
5. Wan Er'xi is the husband of Fengxia. Why is he considered a suitable husband for Fengxia?
6. Long'er represents the old culture. He has won the house from Fugul. What happens to him and what
might it mean?
7. The shadow puppet show is a recurring motif in the film. Keep track of the times the shadow puppets
appear or are referred to in the film.
8. Social structures: Make note of the types of community interaction and traditions in the film. Observe the
roles of grandparents, parents, and children
9. Make note of the number of different campaigns of conflicts in the film. (Examples: Civil War, land reform,
landlord and counterrevolutionary, Great Leap Forward, Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).
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a hypothesis is an expected answer to a question, usually based on some theory or prior research. hypothesis testing is a method of determining the viability of a hypothesis. let’s use the us presidential election as an example. there are many hypotheses (questions) about how people feel or whom they will vote for. the only way to know the 100% “truth” about the answers to these questions is to ask every single possible voter – something that is impossible, expensive, time consuming etc. instead, we take samples and use statistics to make “best guesses” about the answer to a particular hypothesis. we never know for sure if our conclusion is right at the time we accept/reject it, but these techniques, when used appropriately can get us close to the truth most of the time (which is a lot better than guessing, flipping coins or throwing darts to get answers).

the tricky part about hypothesis testing is that we have to think somewhat backwards about it – we have to test what is known as the “null hypothesis”. as an example, the hypothesis might be “obama is more popular than romney” while the null hypothesis is “there is no difference in popularity between obama and romney”. we focus on the null hypothesis because it tells us exactly what the expected value of our tests should be (obama popularity = romney popularity) and we can collect data and see if it comes out that way (see next section on “significance”). if it does, then we “accept the null hypothesis” and reject our original hypothesis. if the null hypothesis is disproven, we look at the data to see if our original hypothesis holds (obama> romney).