A Red Madrasa School Under Mao
Five screenplays examine childhood, education, ideology, family, belief, and survival amid social upheaval in modern China.
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Stories across generations.
Published collections and selected scripts rooted in modern Chinese history, family, identity, and the human consequences of political systems.
Books
Published screenplay collections
Three Generations of Women Under Half the Sky
Five screenplays follow women and families confronting patriarchy, corruption, migration, social expectation, and the gap between political promise and lived reality.
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Feature and short screenplays
Screenplays are available for professional consideration by inquiry. Full scripts are not published on this website.
A Red Madrasa School Under Mao
During the Cultural Revolution, a boy and his displaced intellectual family are sent from Xi'an to a remote village where a Buddhist temple has become a Maoist school.
View workThree Generations of Women Under Half the Sky
Across three generations, women confront patriarchy, corruption, exploitation, state power, family expectation, and the limits of a celebrated political promise.
View workAssimilation
A feature screenplay included in Greg CHEN's second published collection, centered on questions of identity, belonging, and social pressure.
View workWaterdrops Insoluble
A feature screenplay included in Greg CHEN's second published collection, centered on family, identity, and resilience.
View workFive Sheep Versus Two Human Lives
A short screenplay in Greg CHEN's first collection, examining the human cost of systems that reduce life to political or material calculation.
View workFaith, Marriage And Loyalty
Four couples confront conflicting ideas about marriage, religious belief, and loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party.
View workWho Do You Think I Should Believe?
A Chinese intelligence officer begins to question the country's media after comparing its coverage of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre with ABC and BBC reports.
View workAn Acetylene Light
At the end of Mao's rule, the Cultural Revolution's lasting impact unfolds within an intellectual family.
View workYou've Never Had Sex Education?
A feature screenplay about the absence of sex education in China, where sexual identity remains difficult to discuss publicly.
View workHomeless Dogs Never Bite
Intellectuals are sent to Red Flag Coal Mining Labor Camp during and after the Cultural Revolution.
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Current work
Disobedient Citizens
Disobedient Citizens is a screenplay by Greg CHEN currently in development.
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