It is a pure, passionate and secret love. Jing tries to resist, but Sun chases her politely, even after she is back to her native city. But the attraction is mutual, powerful and undeniable. Due to the social gap separating them, a romance between them is unthinkable even more so, dangerous. But Jing's prudent and peaceful existence is disrupted when she condescends to the attentions of Sun, the charming son of an elite military member. A small error would be enough to ruin their lives. Jing knows that both their future and the welfare of her family depend, in view of the authorities, on their good behavior. Jing's father has been jailed for "rightist" and her mother struggles to feed her three children. In China's heavens reigns one solitary God, Mao.
"Under the Hawthorn Tree" tells the story of Jing, a naive city schoolgirl to be transferred to a remote village for "re-education" during the Cultural Revolution.
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