 Made after the war, "Spring in a Small Town", unlike its leftist predecessors of the 1930s, focused on a more intimate affair with only tangential references to the politics of the day.Indeed, the film can be distinguished from those earlier works by its more mature treatment of inter-personal conflicts, particularly in the sense that there are no clear antagonists except for time and circumstance.Because of this apparent lack of "political" grounding, "Spring in a Small Town" was rejected by the Communist Party as rightist or reactionary, and was ignored following the Communist victory in China in 1949.