Oct 12, 2013 11:46 AM

What Tiny Times Says About Our Times

By Sheila Melvin

The summer box office hit "Tiny Times " ( 小时代) – directed by celebrity author Guo Jingming, and based on the first volume of his fictional trilogy of the same name - stunned many film critics and analysts when it earned more than US$ 43 million its first week and beat the Hollywood blockbuster "Man of Steel" at the box office.

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