 The patriotic narrative is in constant tension with visual pleasure in Sun's films after 1933 ("The Little Toys", "Queen of Sports", "The Big Road"), diverting the woman's bodily display from the intimate space of heterosexuality to a more open site.Women's bodies became a public site of propaganda.Under the struggle between patriotic discourse and visual pleasure, women characters in these films went far beyond the male (as the subject) and female (as the object) binary gender matrix.