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In a film from this country, a deaf-mute girl dies in childbirth because a doctor cannot stay awake after eating the equivalent of forty-nine buns. In another film from this country, Yan’er falls sick and dies after defiantly spending an entire night kneeling outside and staring at the ashes of a fire. While standing on a snow-covered roof, the protagonist watches servants drag a different woman to the “room of death” in a film from this country. In the finale of a different film from this country, a (*) spotlight shines directly into the camera after a performer unsheathes a sword and commits suicide offscreen. One film from this country follows the vicious competition between a wealthy man’s four wives, while another centers on the opera stars Dieyi and Xiaolou. For 10 points, name this country, (10[1])the setting of the films Raise the Red Lantern and Farewell My Concubine. ■END■

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