 Given the post-war economic state and the Nationalist’s ideological campaign, "Spring River Flows East" (Yi jiang chunshui xiang dong liu) surprisingly became the top box office film with its performance of cynicism with the Nationalist post-war disappointments.The post-war discussions in China were primarily about the complexity of political engagements and acts of treasons to the country as this discourse was defined by individuals who had lived through the war in the interior.