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Scenes of City Life is a 1935 Chinese comedy-drama film directed by Yuan Muzhi. It is also translated as Cityscape. It is noted for being the first film directed by Yuan, as well as the first film appearance of Jiang Qing, who later became Mao Zedong's fourth wife. The film deals with themes of struggle under a capitalist system. It belongs to a type of Shanghai films from the 1930s, that typically involved music, cinema, fashion, advertising, which contributed to the "Shanghai mystique" and took pride in the city's sophistication.