“…Verzio FF Under Mao's leadership, art was made to serve the "workers, peasants, soldiers, and the cause of socialism." Enormous amounts of artwork, including billboard-size paintings and mass-produced posters, were created to promote the Party's ideology. …”

“…This witty picture, whose comedy often has a chilly edge, provides us with an insight into how the social structure is influenced by omnipresent police repression.…”

“…"Solidarity equals strength, strength is iron, strength is steel," they sing listlessly, while Mrs Qin enthusiastically leads from the front, zealously promulgating her own version of Chinese socialism. Her customers are newly wealthy Chinese busy throwing big budget banquets - a wedding, a parent’s seventieth birthday and a baby’s one month welcome party. …”

“…Director David Redmontsucceeds in connecting the world of the American consumers and the Chinese workers in a very personal way, and the beads in his ingeniously constructed picture become a metaphor pointing to the structure of globalization, which creates social inequality. It is also worth paying attention to the soundtrack combining the col humor and irony of David Dogherty's mucis with the industrial rhythms of the facotry.…”