Youth is a 1977 feature film made by one of the canniest of the Chinese Communist Party's cultural propagandists, Xie Jin, and starring Joan Chen (Chen Chong) in her screen debut. This film, a celebration of the curative miracles of PLA-administered acupuncture and their life-transforming effects on a backwater peasant deaf-mute, shows that Cultural Revolution propaganda was continuing to evolve even as the impetus for the movement died a lingering death. Youth is also an odd, even prescient, example of instant Cultural Revolution nostalgia. The following six excerpts from the film reflect the stages of personal revolution that form the narrative backbone of the film itself:

1. A Sighting
2. Self-sacrifice
3. Loose Tongues
4. Redemption
5. Beijing Calling
6. You're Okay, I'm Okay

Additional Reading: Youth - A Nostalgic Cinematic Reprise of a Lost Cultural Revolution Kingdom, by Geremie Barmé