Jia Zhangke is set to adapt the novel by Su Tong
The Time of Tattoos, says the Hollywood Reporter.
The feature will focus on the end of the Cultural Revolution. It will be set in 1975 in Suzhou, near Shanghai, at the end of the decade of social and economic upheaval set in motion by Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic.
"I don't want to tell macro stories, I want to focus on the small alleys of daily life that show the pain people suffered due to (that period's) shortages, and how they were engulfed by the times," said Jia.